I regret that I didn't know you very well. I remember your light-hearted sense of humor and how you would always try to give me candy as if I were a little girl. Thank you for saving all the lives you could. I pray for you and your family.
As Ernest Hemingway said, "Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."
I'm a little stunned by the stinging pain of reality. This is my last welcome week of my UC Irvine college career. My last first day of fall quarter. The beginning of the end of another chapter.
A year ago, I was traveling in NorCal, enjoying my last moments of summer and pondering how I would be able to commit to taking over 20 units and commuting to school.
Two years ago, I was shopping for clothes for school at Irvine Spectrum and finishing up moving in all my belongings in my Parkwest apartment.
Three years ago, I was ecstatic to move out and into my dormitory, fresh to meet new faces and apprehensive of what to make myself into.
What will happen a year from now? And the year after that? I may have some control over it, but no matter how much I plan things out, life never goes my way. Best thing to do is to be prepared to shift gears and run with the flow.
I think that I really like the direction I'm heading right now. Maybe because I feel purpose in it and because I actually know where I'm going and how I'm going to get there. Feels amazing.
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