We’re all just trying to figure our stuff out. You are, too. That’s okay. If at first you don’t succeed… YOU’RE NORMAL. You don’t have to have it all figured out. You do need to know this: you are awesome and you always gotta treat people awesome. The world needs you, so carpe diem. That means seize the carpe. Or carpe the day. Seize the…just go do something today. Go out into the world. We need people like you. People who care. People who dream. People who are their own Beyonce. The world needs you. You got life ahead of you, live it. Go be awesome.— Kid President
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While looking for quotes for letters and journal entries, I was reminded of a take on change that I had heard quite some time ago. We are constantly changing. This is nothing groundbreaking, and is actually told and retold all the time. But, sometimes not to the magnitude of the actual event. If you see someone from your past that you have not seen in seven years, biologically, you are seeing a new person. Everything about them is different. They have new hair, new skin, new nails. Everything has been changed and replaced, and it is a new them. So, if it is a new them, technically, every seven years it is a new you as well. This does not just apply to the physical aspect of our humanity either. Our emotions and mental states are part of our humanity as well, but we are just unsure of their renewal time because it is dependent on each individual. So, again, we are forever changing…more than we even realize.
It is pretty crazy to think, right? Well, I will be 22 in a little over a month, and with just graduating college last week it makes sense that I am about to start a renewal period. Biologically as well as in my day-to-day life. I’m home for an extended period for the first time in three years, and then in a couple months I will be moving 1,000 miles away from home. Things are changing, people. But that is just part of the way life works. We change, friends change, family changes, the world changes, and we are here to adapt and readapt to the best of our ability. Ride the wave, if you will. Looking back seven years ago to my sophomore year of high school, I can say that I know I am not the same person. My perceptions of people, my outlook on life, my interactions, and many other things have all changed. (I am also starting to think that the awkward stage of life does not renew into anything different.) I am happy with the changes, too. The past seven years has been a fun, hilarious, messy, joy-filled, every-emotion-under-the-sun period in my life. I wouldn’t trade it. I guess my point now is, this is a new chapter in my life I am beginning now. Ending the last chapter is bittersweet, and even though it is scary, I know that it is time for a renewal period. Taking life advice from Ted Mosby here who says, “If you’re not scared, you’re not taking a chance. If you’re not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing?” So, here I go, taking a chance and knowing that I will have the support of family and friends. I am so excited to watch myself and my friends change and adapt and live to our full potential, even if I cannot physically be there with them. Times are definitely changing, so let’s hang ten and ride the wave. Always, Molly |
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