I’m sitting here surrounded by what seems to be half of the Amazon rain forest. I’d like to apologize to my Enviro teacher for the amount of trees I’m killing. Between the twenty four page PHEEA form, my Chaucer essay, and one of several scholarship essays coming out of my printer in the next week, I feel personally responsible for global warming.
But I guess what’s settling on my mind right now is the amount of stress that’s going around. For once, I don’t feel like my head is about to explode (sans drumline, because that in itself is a disaster), and for once, I feel like the calm one. I’ve already decided where I’m going to school next fall, and I’m damn happy with my choice. It’s not what I thought it would have been this summer, but things change. And now, I can sit back a little bit and watch everybody else.
It seems to me that people are freaking out about things way sooner than they should be. Like college; I didn’t start seriously looking until June. My baby sophs are already planning trips to go visit, making charts and graphs, and seeing guidance. My musicals are all over the place; I’ve yet to see a day where someone isn’t in tears or close to it because of a practice, comment, or something silly like a wardrobe malfunction. Maybe I’m exaggerating a little bit, but it seems ridiculous. It’s already March, yet people are still worked up and tied up tighter than the corset on my prom dress. I can smell the spring in the air, but no one to smell it with because everyone’s running around like the proverbial beheaded chicken.
My friends are busy people, there’s no denying that I am as well. What I think I want to say is that everyone needs to relax. I rather dislike seeing purple circles under the eyes day after day. Relaxation is incredibly helpful for the mind and body; I think that’s the only reason I didn’t completely lose my mind in the fall. I didn’t pussy out and take the easy senior year because I’m not a fabulous musician or all star athlete-I needed to take a heavy load so that I could get into college and receive some serious cash. Now that I’ve accomplished that, I feel like I can spread my wisdom. So go forth, my children, and relax and enjoy the fact that spring is on its way.
Sorry if that made absolutely no sense. I think my thoughts on here will still be of the rambling, Montaigne variety, much like the blogspot that shares the same name, but slightly more organized (hey, sounds like what my lit paper should be!). Hopefully you enjoyed that, I enjoyed attempting to be insightful.
pour your empty heart in it but finish what you started 