Near the finish line

It will be here soon enough.

The cap will be on. The gown will unite the many who have endured for the past half-decade. The music will play and the family/friends will cheer in celebration. It's taken such a long time but it's almost here.

As I sit here in between paths in life I think back at this journey. How completely different I am right now compared to when I first started. How much I've learned throughout this time (and laughably how much I realize I don't know). It's kind of weird.

Everyone always told me that college would be among the best years in my life. Many mentioned that the friendships I form on the campus would be some of the most precious in my entire life. I don't know if I agree with any of that. Of course it would have helped if I made more friends but that's a different story.

It has been quite the ride though. College is so fresh. There's no other place where one can interact with such a diverse sea of individuals. It's one place that simply contains a bunch of people who have yet to be conformed by culture. Fresh faces who have yet to meet the grind of work.

So, as I sit down writing this, I smile at the wonder of it all. I didn't go to the biggest or the best college in the whole wide world. I didn't even go to a college with "college life." But I have been impacted; and it makes me smile.