So it is officially crunch time. There is less than a month before the end of the semester and graduation. There are only a few not so small assignments left in this semester. I still am having trouble wrapping my mind around the idea that a chapter of my life, even if it was a four year chapter, is coming to an end.
I am not sad that the chapter is ending. I am sad because I don't think I have cherished it as much as I should have. I have a habit of trying to "make it through" to a certain point. Lately that seems to be the end of next week, when things will start dying down. But in doing that, I am missing opportunities to hang out with others, to connect, to learn in the trenches, and gain peace in the insanity of the busy.
The magnitude of the fact that I am graduating and will not return next semester, to the life I've known for the last four years, to the friends I have made in that time, to the job I've grown to love, has not yet hit me. I think I am just beginning to grasp what graduation really means. I am so excited for whatever happens after, but I am working on learning how to "be" in these last few weeks.
I challenge y'all to do the same. Learn how to "be" where you are at and not just "get through" the hard things onto something else. I believe that it is sometimes the hard times that we learn from the most.
Remember, He has made you beautiful!
