the journey through life

I started this blog over two and a half years ago during the winter break of my sophomore year -- I thought I had it all together. I was finally coming into my own at Tech, finding the friends who mattered, deciding what I wanted to do with my major and my future career -- it all made sense, or so I thought.

Now here I am, a college graduate headed to grad school trying to figure out what the next two years have in store for me. Everything has changed. I act, think, and feel nothing like how I did during winter break of my sophomore year. I wanted to be a journalist, I thought I was in love, I thought I understood what it took to work hard, I thought I knew -- myself. That is the wonderful, beautiful event that we live everyday though isn't it? We embark on a journey the minute we step out of bed in the morning, into this world we call 'life' -- to try and understand what purpose we serve and how to be a better person than we were the day before. Every person on this planet is different, but there are, I believe, a few things we all have in common: we want to love, we want to be loved, we want to succeed, and we want to be the best "me" possible.

It's not enough that we go through the motions of life, what matters is that every step is a journey. That's why I titled my blog the way that I did, because I wanted to journal my journey and see where I would end up and how I would evolve over time. At this very moment, 9:18 p.m. on July 15, 2012, I feel this way: I am getting more and more anxious about moving 7 hours away from home in just three weeks; I feel that I am currently living in the best and healthiest body I have had in many, many years; I laugh without judgment; I try to live without overanalyzing people/situations/events; I am learning how to handle my stress.

I feel like I ramble on about change a lot when I write about how I have changed and etc etc but I think that is the point I am at in my life right now where things seem to keep getting better and are constantly changing to show me different vantage points on a daily basis -- end rant.

In two months my life will be somewhere along these lines:
5:30 a.m. - Wake up
6:00 a.m. - Gym
8:00 a.m. - Graduate assistantship at a local hospital or doctor's office in SC
3:00 p.m. - Finish assistantship for the day
4:15 pm. - Class
8:30 p.m. - Finish Class
9:00 p.m. - Dinner and Homework
11:00 p.m. - Bed

The journey through life continues, and it only becomes more exciting and unknown as we go.