Daily Inspiration

“Everything in life is connected somehow. You may have to dig deep to find it but its there. Everything is the same even though it is different. Somehow everything connects back with your life. The faces in certain places may be different, but the situation is the same. Irony is a hidden factor that creeps around us in life, letting its presence felt only after it has left. Picture back to a year ago and the situation you were in. Look at how things are different yet somehow everything is still in someway cognate. Everything connects together to form the balance of life, to maintain structure. Change is and ways will be inevitable, but everything else is relative, and all the moments and times in your life will come back around again, you might just find yourself on the other side of the coin. things are always changing, as fast as everything stays the same.”– Anonymous

I saw this quote this morning and realized that it has almost been one year since I have graduated from college. Wow it is a little crazy to think about considering how much has changed in one year but also how fast it has passed  by. I feel that this quote has truth to it because when I think about how different my life is from last year when I was feeling crazy and finishing up finals and wondering what was next for my life,  I am still the same person and although my life is 180 degrees different from college it is still so much the same. I still don’t know what I want to do with my life. I still have all the relationships that are meaningful and important very much intact even if some of them are more distant than they used to be.

Graduating from  college and entering the “real world” is one of the biggest steps one takes in life and even though my every day life is so different what I am doing, where I live, who I spend my time with, what I spend my time doing; I don’t feel different I still feel like the same person I was this time last year. It is important to remember that although so much has changed already, it is going to continue to change. And although a whole year has gone by, I am still so young and still have so many choices and opportunities that lie in the future.

It is easy to get caught up in the daily grind when you start working because you don’t have classes at all different times or activities like you did in school. You go to work and then the gym and then home and watch TV ( if you are like me) its so easy to fall into this routine and just get stuck. This makes life boring and monotonous, its important to remember that work is work and you still need to get involved in the things that make you happy and that you were involved in at school. You can still do activities, go out, have side jobs or pursue something you enjoy even if it isn’t the job you currently have.

After being a college graduate for a whole year I have learned the most important thing to do when encountering change, is embrace it. The year after you graduate can be filled with struggles, challenges, hardships, accomplishments but will definitely be full of change.