2025-8-14
A fact about time, or at least my perception of it, is that no matter how inevitable its passing is, it is still surprising nonetheless. While it is admittedly cliché, the summer has truly flown by. It is difficult to think that in only two days I will be moving into my dorm room and leaving behind a previous life.
You may say that it’s not that dramatic, and I would quickly respond, “No! This is completely dramatic.” This is the moment when I go to college. For me there has never been such a moment of stark change in my life, not just in location, but in way of life. So no, it is dramatic and I am not being dramatic.
But moving on, I am filled right now with a mix of emotions. Part of me is filled with excitement for the change college brings: the excess freedom, the resources, the learning. I am a bit worried about class difficulty, some placement tests, the internship search process, but those are all very tangible, obviously material things.
I also feel a longing for fulfillment, a longing to find others who, in essence, inherently understand the thoughts that permeate my mind in a way that those currently around me cannot. There is a deeply deafening noise in the inability to share the concepts in your head with someone else, every thought piling up, waiting to be set free. One may look at this and recommend that perhaps I should turn more of these ideas loose on journaling, and perhaps I should work on my communication skills.
I would agree.
But there is clearly something special about sharing an idea that’s been fermenting in your mind with someone who instantly understands, no lengthy explanation interfering.
Regardless of what I am feeling, I must pack up my stuff by tonight and leave by tomorrow at noon. And so too must I wrap up this article.
To all those people, places, and moments which have made up my life until now, I say thank you. Thank you for getting me here. Thank you for carrying me through all the life that I have so far lived.
Because while you will not continue with me, you have made all my time with you an excellent beginning to the rest of my life.
So long, everything.