Well, now I am able to use ellipses (the dots in the title...duh), read what I want, and not feel guilty about skipping out on that one thing that one night next weekend. Yeah, college life is over for me, and surely something will come my way. Surely. Right?
I graduated last month with a happy, yet panicked view into my own future. Would my life continue to contain tuna and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the indefinite future: possibly. Could I make it as a writer: unlikely. Should I try: most definitely.
So I have graduated from one life and moved into another. This trend will not stop here. I am now in the school of the unemployed, and plan to finish with this major sooner rather than later. Eventually I will join in on the school of world travelers, home ownership, even family life. The graduating never ends; it starts in kindergarten, continues in eighth grade and high-school, and picks up from there. What's the difference between kids in school and us, us twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty somethings? We don't get ice-cream cake and cards full of cash when we find a job, spouse, or house.
We get bills, taxes, kids, groceries, houses, cars, medical care, dental, and all those other adult joys.
But we never stop graduating.
We never stop learning.
So here's to that.
I graduated last month with a happy, yet panicked view into my own future. Would my life continue to contain tuna and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the indefinite future: possibly. Could I make it as a writer: unlikely. Should I try: most definitely.
So I have graduated from one life and moved into another. This trend will not stop here. I am now in the school of the unemployed, and plan to finish with this major sooner rather than later. Eventually I will join in on the school of world travelers, home ownership, even family life. The graduating never ends; it starts in kindergarten, continues in eighth grade and high-school, and picks up from there. What's the difference between kids in school and us, us twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty somethings? We don't get ice-cream cake and cards full of cash when we find a job, spouse, or house.
We get bills, taxes, kids, groceries, houses, cars, medical care, dental, and all those other adult joys.
But we never stop graduating.
We never stop learning.
So here's to that.
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