The phrase "being young and stupid" often goes hand in hand with "young and in love". I never really noticed this until recently when I looked at my own decisions. Except, I'm not calling them stupid. Every move I make is calculated and carefully dissected. I leave room for error, because no plan is perfect, and I continue. The point I'm trying to get across is that as a freshman in college, I'm not given much credit for what I've already accomplished. I graduated high school. Every one's rebuttal to that is "just wait till college" "they were babying you in high school" "just wait for the real world". Well if the real world is anything like dealing with vicious rumors and crazy hormones 24/7, then I'm fine with waiting for the "real world". The choices I make now may or may not have anything to do with what I'm going to accomplish in the future. Leaving high school was honestly the scariest thing I have ever done. And I've done some pretty scary stuff. But the choices I made in high school are just as "real world" as the choices I'll make in the next couple years. College is just an extension of my learning career and that's all I see it as. Another thing I have to conquer and then eventually leave. I'm making my own path right now. Of course I'm taking advice from family and the wiser people in my life, but I'm not going to let their voices be the only ones I hear. It's advice, not rules. The past 17 years have consisted of following and relying on other peoples maps. But now the world has offered me a blank canvas and I intend to paint whatever I want on there. Whether it be grad school, a job, or following the one I love up north. Nothing is written in stone. But at the end of it all, I'm going to be able to say that I did it my way.
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