Intermission

In the two weeks I have left before I leave this place for something new and unfamiliar I've reflected on the growth within the intermission. I recently finished a few good books and have moved on to some others. In thinking about our time together I've realized we have become and are nothing short of extraordinary. Often you think of how hard others in the world have it and allow it to be the measure of your success and failure, but it is also has the ability to cancel out the achievement one has made. Three years ago we would have never thought this would be our lives, hell we didn't even think we would be and remain friends. Approaching Junior year one of us is leaving for something different, something more of the college expedience we might of all expected and it will add to the stories we will share and the bond that we've created. Two of us are leaving the country for something so unfamiliar that there are no expectations for the future so we are approaching the next step in our lives with eyes wide open. Others are returning the place in which we call home that every year no matter how familiar we think it to be, finds a way to turn us on our heads and re-think it all and not to complicate our lives but to make us realize things can be simple if we let them.

So I sit here and think about the past, present, and future and for some reason it all seems more vivid now then before. Once again I'm realizing that college, more specifically Williams is all about life lessons, how much can you gain about the world in four years in a place that offers it all. After spending so much time away from what I had grown accustomed to I was able to look at things in a clearer form. Its funny how things work themselves out, how in lue of everything you would consider to be the end all be all the light at the end of the tunnel burns brighter as you walk towards it that it is almost blinding. Maybe for everyone this is a major point of reflection, who knows, but I do know I've been healthy and happy both in body and mind. I can only hope that my semester abroad will be just as enlightening. For during this intermission I know what I want out of life, and that is to live it to the fullest and be successful by my own terms. And what exactly that means I don't have to know right now, but I know I'm looking forward to finding out. :)

I guess what I'm saying is take time to reflect, its very humbling. When I run I live for those seconds of a blank mind, the moment of true clarity. No matter how ordinary you think the things you've done in your life so far are, take a second to remember ever mile you have traveled, each meal you've eaten, each person you have known, every conversation you've shared, every room in which you've slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond the imagination, who would have thought? I know I didn't...and to think its only just begun.

<3 Dolce