Life After Graduation

Hi!

Its been a long time since I wrote here in cyberspace, but I am glad to have returned.
That sentence makes me laugh because my last post was in November.

 It means so much that I did not give up on blogging.
Anyway back to more than my intro into 2013. Since starting January, I know
many people have been back to working on the daily routine.
WE just ushered in a new year like in a flash, anyone agree?
This year is definitely different. I'm not taking any new classes, worrying about
gettting my books and thinking about a greater plan for when it ends.

Sigh.
Its time to worry about the REAL WORLD.
So, what happens to a college graduate after graduation? Well, I on the imaginitive side of
things was hoping my fairy godmother would come down and make a new path appear.
What really happens is, for a long period of time, you are taking classes and writing papers,
it was easy after awhile, then its like the 'party' is over. Sure, the academic stress is gone, no need to be pressured to write 10 page papers, no longer expecting an A or B.  But it was familiar,  semester expectations rolled like a sequence.

Yeah, the "now what?" finds its spot in the void.
What would happen now? All I can say at this point, as the end of January approaches,
for me, I'm letting life take its course, which is scary. I got all these decisions to make,
people waiting in anticipation for me to choose choose choose..something.

My degree does not have some kind of final line that defines a occupation, though I've been
told its very versatile. Know fellow collegiate warriors, don't be affraid to lift both hands in surrender. Defend your right to state "give me time, you know, I will be okay," even though there is fear in the eyes of your loved ones. Stand firm, because now you have to realize what matters most is faith in yourself, and to be comfortable if you do not know what you want to do.

4 years, yes, that "should have been enough time," according to a older family member of mine.
But, in truth, those same 4 years were not just about learning information, they was growth to face growing up, dealing with oneself being a grown up.

We are only one person. College was a big chunk of what I have lived through, and though it is
still tough to separate myself from feeling 'homesick' about it, I have a life to figure out.

That beyond all the ideas I learned about, in the end, I am glad going to college taught me
to think for myself.

Grateful for my degree, for this blog, and you who was curious enough to read up to this point.

Thank You.

"Life is a journey not a destination."

Take Care :)  CC