Have you ever had that moment in your life where you wonder 'where have the past three years of my life gone?'
If you have, then I welcome you to my current reality.
I remember being a wide-eyed freshman setting foot on the big bad college campus for the first time.
I remember when my biggest concern was trying to remember how to navigate the Haley Center.
Whatever happened to that?
It's like I blinked, and I'm a senior, and people are asking me to make big girl decisions about the rest of my life.
The scariest part is that I don't know.
In a year I'll have a degree and a college education, and yet I feel entirely unprepared for life in general.
I've done my best to stave off the impending reality of being on my own, but everywhere I turn people keep shoving it my face that I'm about to graduate.
"Where do you want to move after you graduate?"
"Where do you want to work?"
"What do you want to do with your degree?'
Umm...'D' none of the above? Unfortunately life is not a coveted multiple choice test.
It's like walking into an essay exam that you did not study for.
I usually end up running my words in circles until I feel that I have sufficiently not answered the question, then deftly change the subject.
Yes, we all have to grow up, graduate, get jobs and move on with our lives. I know that if I was stuck for the rest of my life living my senior year of college, I'd be miserable, but for the time being leave me alone.
There's plenty of time to shoulder responsibility and stress out when you're old, but there's not a lot of time left where you can be carefree.
The point is we should be able to enjoy this one last football season, this one last year without people hounding us about our future.
These four years pass you by quick. Don't make it all about planning what you'll do after college because then you'll never have a chance to enjoy college.
I say when the time comes push me out of the nest, and I'll learn to fly.
In the mean time, could I please just pause time and enjoy my quasi-adult life? Maybe even revel in my last year of minimal responsibility?
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