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Live in The Moment
Why do we as children in elementary always think
about what we'd be like in middle school,
then middle school to high school,
and high school to college,
or our future career?
I'm one of those people,
of course,
always planning ahead.
Getting older is insanely scary to me
but we can't do anything about it,
all we can do is live in the moment.
"Live in the moment," people say.
How are you supposed to "live in the moment"
when all anyone is talking about throughout high school
is college??
Walking into ramp-up,
the teacher is talking about grade rankings
and making a good choice for future goals.
When all the people you hang out with
are juniors in high school or seniors in college,
you hear these goal things 10 times more.
I can't live in the moment when all I want to do
is go to college and actually have a career I love.
That's another thing,
what if I make a mistake that alters my entire life forever?
Constantly thinking "Oh, what if I did this?" or
"What would change if I did that differently?"
Always wondering.
Thinking almost every day about what
you want to do when you're older.
It would seem that I have the inability to
"live in the moment."
Life moves too fast,
it feels like yesterday that I was in 5th grade
getting told we'd be out of school for the rest of the school year.
I'm a freshman now and everything matters,
I can't go back.
I can’t go back to naptime in kindergarten or
movie days in second grade.
I could go on and on about the memories
from elementary but I'm sure you all remember.
I mean, almost all of us have known each other since the 1st grade.
We don’t really know each other though, do we?
The only thing you all need to know right now is that we
only live once and we can only make decisions
on what we feel is best at the time.
The problem is, we don't have time and we never will.
We need to live in the moment.
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