The Beginning

College is the time that we set loose the sails and grab the rudder all by ourselves for the first time. Sometimes we plow ahead through crashing waves, sometimes we seem to drift with the current, other times we are tossed from the boat. Lessons learned we climb back up, bail the water on board, trim the sails and set off agian wiser and ready for what comes next. But truely I say this is but the beginning of our long journey of life. Destination unkown? For some of us lie at night looking at the stars, asking them to guide us wich direction we should go to reach something that we are unsure of. But for me, my life has seemed to grant me something of a map with the destination much more assured. My course, though, is what is far more important for my lifetime then the destination, because my arrival is guaranteed. My life is changing, I can smell it on the wind. I have felt the stirring in my heart, and I know it is time to rise to the future and take on the waves ahead.

I read a quote stating:

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

I have grown, I have aged. I have laughed, I have cried. I’ve turned over a new leaf, and then turned another, but what have a learned? What did I gain from this? I know a new path has been laid out, it is time to come alive. I must find out what I shall do, and I must rise to the challenges in front of me and meet them head on. We all decide at one point or another what we want to become, and some of us change this, some of us work at this till we are that thing. My journey is to find what I shall work towards becomming. I know where many of my gifts lie. I have taken stock after being tested by college, and found some things I thought I was good at proved to be an illusion, and others that I thought were ‘secondary’ talents have emerged as the stronger and more productive of my abilities. So I now have a realistic, taking the stock I’m given and moving forth with the intention to utilize these gifts I will find what makes me come alive, and I will not be afraid to strive for the greatness contained in my life. But I know, that truely this glorious awakening is but the beginning.