March 15, 2010
Carpe Diem
“Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.”
~Audrey Hepburn (of course!!)
While stressing about the future and where I am going in life, I stumbled upon these quotes from Audrey. They are perfect advice for everything going on in my life right now (and in the lives of many college students, I am sure). Registration for senior year, finding an apartment (since I will no longer be living dorm life and am officially homeless next year), job/ internship searches, graduate schools, homework…and the list continues.
But while talking with some of my close friends, something very surreal began to dawn on us. Within one year, we will all be moving on to bigger things in life. These things will take us all over the United States (and some farther than that). Realizing we probably only have one year left where we will all be together (no matter how much we literally change the subject or start singing and holding our ears), we have to grab onto to every last moment we have and live each day.
Yes, I have to focus on my future because the real world is coming, and fast. Yes, this seems like high school all over again: new place, new people, new adventure. But what is different is the fact that we have gathered so many memories in the past few years and will never let them, or each other, go.
These words couldn’t have found me at a better time. With the stresses hanging in the air around me and all of my friends, I took the opportunity to share these wise words. And though the fact that we are splitting is a forbidden subject, we take comfort in the fact that we can live each day to the fullest just by being friends and creating those memories.
