Stumbling Through Life
There is no one right path to life...
In fact what is the whole point of life? Don't worry I'm not getting too deep here.
I think it’s about the journey, not the destination. Sorry I'm a little corny, but what really is the destination? Success? Retirement? Death?
I graduated high school in 2014 and guess what? It’s 2017 and I’m a first semester freshmen and I’m okay with that.
I knew that going to college immediately after 12 years of mandatory schooling, I wasn’t going to suddenly start appreciating it.
I chose to get a job, read some books and surprisingly that my changed my life.
I finally understood why adults stress the fact that you have to go to college. Without a college degree or an exceptional skill in a highly paid industry, finding a job that feels less like a job and more like a passion is hard to come by.
(Side note: Read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki… it changed my perspective and outlook on life. Because of that book I decided to pursue a life of freedom.)
After kind of figuring out what I wanted, I decided to take my awful high school transcript to a whatever school in North Carolina to get started somewhere. (Read about my failures here)
My boyfriend at the time had relatives in North Carolina and since I wanted the “all American college experience” I thought why not? (I went to an unconventional high school growing up in NYC... story for another time).
I took out a $13,000 student loan to pay for my year there, joined a sorority, went to football games, frat parties and started my own sorority home decor online business. I got my act together and my brought up my GPA substantially in one semester... but I disliked it and came back.
I began applying as a transfer student for civil engineering which I had chosen to pursue once I left my first university. I made sure that I submitted an application that I was proud of and even if I didn’t get in, I would be satisfied that at least gave it my best.
Long story short, I didn’t get accepted into any engineering programs because I hadn’t taken calculus and physics. Honestly, I was disappointed.
But here I am.
Today I finished my first semester at community college and I couldn't be more proud of my self. I went to class Monday through Thursday and worked Thursday through Sunday every single week of this semester and still managed to get a 4.0 while maintaining an active social life. That's not to say the work was easy, but I came to this semester prepared to take on whatever was necessary to achieve my goals and I wasn't going to "waste" any more time.
I put quotations on the word waste because I don't believe that anything is actually a waste. I sound like an old lady but it's true. There is always something that can be learned from any given situation, like my 3.5 year long relationship that I ended, I gained so much from it.
Anyway, I'm stumbling through life but I'm on my way to achieving my goals.
Martin Luther King once said...
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
So right now I'm evolving from a crawling pokémon to walking on my own two feet, but I'm moving forward one way or another.
