My Life Is Better Than It Ever Was

This summer is beginning to come to an end, as it is already mid-August, and I can't help but look back at these past few months. For me, however, it has just been another three months gone. (Read: Adult life and a nine-to-five absolutely suck.) I graduated from college just over three months ago and it has given me time to evaluate my life, transition into an actual human being, and prioritize things. I've come to realize that my values have changed. The transition into an "adult" that I once feared so much is now seeming to be a welcomed change. I'm happy working five days a week, having responsibilities, waking up early and feeling accomplished. Trust me, it's quite a change from staying out until 4am, sleeping most of the day away, and finding my greatest "accomplishment" being that I woke up before 2pm.

In addition, I've come to find that my greatest asset that I've come away with over the past three years of college is not an education or a sense of independence, but the people I get to call my friends. When I left my small town and my tight-knit circle of childhood friends three years ago, I was devastated. I thought that nothing and noone could compare to the life I had been leading up until then. I knew in my heart that I would never find anyone else to trust or confide in; no one to call my friend. Luckily for me, I could not have been more wrong. My college friends have renewed my faith in humanity. They have convinced me that there are still unselfish, loving, considerate people in the world, something I thought I could never believe. They have helped me to grow, shown me that it's okay to be whoever it is that I am, and helped make my life feel like home. I can easily envision these individuals being a part of my life for many years to come.

The only bad part about being so attached to these people is that these years, too, will come to an end. My friends will move on to their own lives and to their respective locations around the nation, and I will be once again at a loss for the people I love more than anything. They have become my family away from my own, my caretakers, my inspiration, the very best parts of my everyday. I am quickly realizing that life is simply made up of one transition after another, but that realization doesn't make facing them any easier.

Maybe I'll learn to move on with greater ease over time, but even ease of transition will never take away or fill all the spaces in my heart that have been occupied by those I've cared about over the years. Even if they may never know how much they have impacted me or how valuable they have been to my life, I will never take for granted all of the beautiful people that God has blessed me enough to know.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they
arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.--Anais Nin