We're on October break, and it's got me thinking about my priorities - since these aren't really holidays, what should I be doing with the time? I've got my whole future ahead of me to plan out; for some reason I manage to pass this with a sense of mundane neutralness - there's nothing special to it like there should be. Another example of the wondrous hold of the International Baccalaureate on another poor soul. But at the same time, it's taught me about the transitory nature of things.
Recently I was stressing over something that I had absolutely no control over - I couldn't change it, it wasn't my place or heart to do so. Yet it tortured me, distracted me from the many things I could've been catching up on or doing instead. And so I learn this lesson, to never let it do the same thing again - granted that's a hard promise to keep seeing as this obstacle is one that is bound to come up multiple times in the course of one's life. But it made me stronger, and for this I am glad.
And when you think about it - life is going to present you with many hiccups - you just have to put it in perspective and realize that, in the future this little hiccup won't even show up. There are so many scary and exciting things you'll have to face in your life ahead, so what's the point of believing this is the end? When it really isn't. So much more to come.
I can't wait for my future. It feels like a bright one. But I'm not going to waste the present either. Live with the Joie de vivre, and carpe diem.
