Spring Fling
What a wonderful day today. The sun was shining, music was playing and freebies were just about everywhere - from Neutrogena products to hand massages to caricatures. The way to a poor college student's heart is through free stuff. We saw Hellogoodbye perform and it was just a fun day. Everybody was out and enjoying themselves. It's times like these that make me scared to leave this oyster.
These four years have been so ridiculously fast. I still remember freshmen year meeting the skanks & the hinman boys - my first college friends. And now fast forward a few years and I'm about to become an adult. How scary is that?
When I was younger, I couldn't wait to get older because I thought life would be easier. In elementary, I looked forward to junior high and being able to meet new friends. In jhs, I looked forward to high school because I would be able to hang out with these new friends. In hs, I looked forward to college - the time of ultimate freedom and experimentation. But mistakes were made and hearts were broken. Life goes on. How does it happen that we quickly forget the bad only to embrace the good?
And now that college is almost over, what do I look forward to? Living at home? Paying bills? Worrying about dental and retirement benefits? Living life as if the same song was on repeat?
It's just so bittersweet because this is the end of this chapter in my life. Soon Binghamton will be nothing more than just a fond memory.
I've been very lucky though. I'm happy.
First Dominican Republic:
then China Night, where I got to see old friends and make new ones:
and then Spring Fling. Finally, it will soon be Bar Crawl and Graduation.
Life is just continually about change over and over again. Once you get comfortable, life throws you a curve ball. You never know who you'll meet or who your future friends will be. People change, people die, people move. I guess that is what keeps life interesting and makes a person grow. I couldn't have asked for a better ending to my college years. I cannot complain.
So the main point of this entry is basically, carpe diem.
Saying goodbye will be very hard but I've been very lucky because it only means that I've met such great friends.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. ~Fr. Alfred D'Souza
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