Let's Squeal More Than We Cry

I had this dream a few weeks ago. In this awful dream, I was the only one graduating. I was so excited to know I was getting married, but everyone else was staying here at Ole Miss, in the Chi O house. I felt alone and left out and confused. But then I woke up and realized the sad but comforting truth- we're all leaving. We're all graduating into this adult world. We all feel entirely too young to be doing so, but it's happening. Some of us are grad schooling, some of us are working, a few of us are getting married, some of us are moving to fun places, some of us are staying in Oxford and getting the opportunity to experience it in a new fun way. But none of us get to stay in this place- the physical place- Ole Miss, Oxford, the house- and none of us get to stay in this place in time- the four precious years that we will never be able to look back on without longing for another taste.

I hate endings. I always have. I hate them hate them hate them. But what I don't mind, oddly, is change. I love the new and exciting. I love beginnings. So here's to beginnings. Here's to remembering college was the beginning of our friendships, not the end. We're all starting new and fun and fresh and exciting things- so let's squeal more than we cry (at this point I must give a shout out to Natalie, who's probably crying anyway). Think about how our parents always talk about their college days. They smile and they laugh and they tell us they're jealous that we get to be in college now, but they're not actually jealous in the sense that they actually want to be back in their college days.

They would never trade in the years since.

This is what I want to blog about- the fun new beginnings in my life and the lives of those I love.

C.S. Lewis once pointed out that we are not made for time- we're made for eternity. This is why we never feel like we've had enough time. Well that explains it.

Rachel