closing this chapter of my life

Jacquelynn & I

Jacquelynn being a hottie

Burrito-ing...made famous by Jacquelynn. :)

So today is my LAST day of finals!!!!! YESSSSS!!!!
Summer is so close but I am sad to see the school year coming to an end. I love college. I fucking love it. I've been pretty mellow throughout the year where I haven't done anything too terribly stupid, however, the last few weekends before finals started, I got a bit crazy. I am really glad that I wasn't that way all year, though--only doing that a few times was definitely enough for me.

I have learned a lot this year. I have learned to become more confident in myself, take a little risk, and to let go. I feel like I have to learn to let go all over again whenever a situation comes where I have to do so. That's okay. It's good to let go because that means that you are opening doors for new, better things and people to come in.

All of the friends that I have made this year...I love you. I love you all. I think that the people made this year an absolute blast for me! I hope that I stay in touch with most of them. I also hope that I can see some of them this summer. :)

Anyway, enough of that. New chapter. :)

Things have been glorious for me lately. God has been really good to me. I think He knows how much I love change but am not very good at adapting to it, therefore, yesterday I got my first apartment with two of my best friends, Jacquelynn and Blair, and I also got my first job a few days before that. YESSS. I am so blessed! This all balances things out. Change is amazing. It is hard, though, I know that. I think that change happens because God (or life knows) that some things just simply need to end, and living in the dorms and my freshman year has come to a close, and I have to be okay with that. You know why? Because it's ending, no matter how much I miss it, no matter how much I am sad that it is ending, no matter how much I feel like there are still things I want to do--it doesn't matter, because time doesn't wait for anyone. Life keeps going on, and we kinda just have to ride the waves.
That's why I think it's really important to make the most of what you have when you have it. That way, you will never have any regrets. You will miss less...because you lived more in those moments when you had them. I've really realized that over the course of this first year of college. I am so grateful for learning those things. If there's one thing I've changed about my mindset, it's that...if there's ever anything you desperately want to do, do it. I mean, of course, there are boundaries to this kind of thinking, but I think you'll understand the point I'm trying to make. Seriously. Life is so short. Live, now. We are more than alive. We live.

So since summer is nearly at my fingertips, reading my old blog always gets me in the mood! I started it when I was 16-17 and all I cared about what getting tan and boys (typical teenage girl, I feel like). But it's cool because it was the beginning of my blogging craze, so check it out. :)

http://goodthingscomeinpinkboxes.tumblr.com/

This is another blog that I created, probably a year later, when I was less into the whole summer thing, and it's a bit more like who I am on a regular basis:

http://flyalready.tumblr.com/

Anyway, that's all for now! STAY SWEET. :)