Saturday, June 14, 2014

Nostalgia and days gone bye

The other day i got hit with a weave of nostalgia. I've been moving things around in my room recently since we got news beds, so I've been going through things I didn't need anymore and just sorting through my junk I have in my room. It reminded me of college life looking through what to keep, what to buy to help me keep things more tidy and organized. Reminded me of when I'd move in and the people I saw, going to classes and the daily life of a college campus. It just hit me hard in the chest that its been a good 4 years since school. Life has flown by and its so weird to take a long hard look at where I'm at now.

I won't lie, life hasn't gone the way I planned it. I got kicked out of school, my family was hit with a lot of health issues and losses, one after another and I'm not doing what it is I THINK (keyword there) I should be doing and a whole lot of other fantastically frustrating things. Does it get me down? yes. Oh yes it does. Does it suck? Sure does. But I try and not to let that get me down. I love the feeling of nostalgia. It feels me with warm feelings of the past. Of days when we'd hang out at college, of summers spent as a kid running through sprinklers, and water and of days spent enjoying good cartoons. But I also and more so recently, have been trying to look forward to the future and be an adult.

I've been trying to put away some of my childish ways. I've been trying to be more responsible, more motivated, staying on task, and that sort of thing that I just never got down as a kid. I'm trying to be financially responsible and more minded about the future. Life has given me wake up calls and I am trying to answer them.

I miss college. I miss summers spent with friends, cartoon reruns, and even the simple homework I used to have. But those days are over. Sure I can visit them, enjoy them even. But I have to realize that the only important thing is forward and not the past. I've gotten what I've gotten from there and I need to grow from my experiences. The Character development continues…