A New Chapter

It's always strange when a phase of your life comes to a close. I've just graduated from college and now I'm several thousand miles away from the place I've lived for almost my entire life. It hasn't really sunk in yet that this isn't just a vacation and that I'm not starting school up in the fall along with everyone else.

This move from Utah to Indiana has been stressfl for me. My family is back in Utah. Even though George and I have now movd all of our things, it's in storage right now. We don't have an apartment, we don't have jobs. My mother-in-law has kindly let us stay with her for a short time, but there's so much unknown sitting directly in front of me that if I start thinking about it too much I begin to panic.

I was talking with my sister about this, though, and I realized I haven't quite seen the potential of the situation. She said to me that I should be excited about where we are. My whole life is open to me, there are many paths I can choose right now, and who knows where they will take me? Sometimes I think I know exactly where I am and what my life is going to be about already, when really, I still have so much life ahead of me to live. There's no reason to box myself in and have my path set just yet.

So here's to new beginings in a new state. Here's to finding work and a new routine to live every day. Here's to picking up lost habits and setting new goals. Though I can't see ahead of me right now, I can always have hope that the future is bright and make the best of the present given to me now.