As in the title, this post will be about holidays. Specifically, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am fully prepared and intending to completely engorge myself this next week back home in North Carolina. Multiple times. And the same will happen for Christmas break. I’m not really sure why I’m writing this blog. I guess it’s just a place for me to put what I think about my life at this moment right now. I feel like I’m so close to the final push to finish strong in my intellectual life here at Emmanuel. Finals will begin the week I return, and I have many final papers/speeches/presentations to give before the actual “finals” begin. I’m not worried about it though. So far I’ve done fairly well in my academic life here so I’m standing strong. A good bit of my time over Thanksgiving break. On the note of Thanksgiving, this year I’m not just going to see it as an opportunity to eat food and be with family, but as a time to actually give thanks for everything in my life up to this point. And boy, do I have so much to be thankful for. If you don’t stop and think about it, you will never be thankful for anything. Even if something is given to you “free” always be thankful. If you lose your gratitude, you will lose whatever you had. They say you never know what you have till you lose it, and this next week that will be my creed.
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Time, Cycles, and Life
It’s funny how the hours melt into days, the days melt into weeks, and the weeks melt into months. It seems only yesterday I was stepping outside of my car at my brother’s house, family in tow, about to embark on that brave new adventure called college. And now it’s November, I’m sitting here in the EC Library, but outside it’s dark, windy, and cold. I’ve made it through almost 4 months of college so far.
All those warm and eager summer days have faded and now winter’s chilling grasp is falling over Franklin Springs. Everything seems to be slowing down to a crawl. Traffic, schoolwork, friends, the weather. I’m sitting here in disbelief at how fast this moment has come. If this is how the rest of my life is going to be, then I’ll be retired and dead before I can say “hold up a minute”. Thanksgiving will be on my doorstep in just about a week. After that, we have just one more week and Christmas Break will be here. And after that, any spring semester always goes by fast, no matter what school or where you are. Then it will be summer. I’ll be home and enjoying my free time. Then August will roll around, and all of this will begin again. It’s the cycle of my life for the next 3 years.
This ‘cycle’ has been my life so far for the past 18 years, although there were some interruptions and restarts. Moving, changing homes, new schools, middle school, high school, different schedules. All those things were disruptive to the cycle, but no matter what, the cycle always continued. After I graduate college and am hopefully married, another cycle will begin. Graduate school, careers, family, aging. This is what I predict my future will consist of.
Is this the future that will come to pass for me? Will a crazy white haired doctor come along with a time machine and allow me to change what has been, or what will become? Do you like chocolate? Only God knows. All I know now is that I have a paper to work on.
