Finally moved in and hopefully on

Tonight, I finally moved into my apartment at Sunchase-Longwood for good (at least for the next year) and things are starting to look organized in the apartment. It's beginning to look like a normal apartment. I still have some things to unpack and square away, but I definitely don't feel like doing it now at 12:00AM after working for 8.5 hours, packing for an hour, and then driving another hour or more to Farmville. Plus, I've unpacked all the important stuff -- FOOD, PS2 games, drinks, laptop, etc. . . . . . . . The clothes and cd's other crap can wait!

So I'm pessimistically hoping this semester will get off to a great start and continue throughout the remainder and into the next semester, my final semester as a Longwood student. It's quite sad, but at the same time rewarding and a sign of things to come. I'm 21 and I'll have a Bachelor's in May when I turn 22 -- Life is just beginning for me, really.

It just took me 20-some years, many girlfriends, gobs of money from loans, and 1 serious (awesome at the time) relationship to realize that life is just starting. I've succeeded AND failed so many times this summer to move on past a difficult time in my life, so I really cannot call them successes or failures really, just attempts at success and failure. But now, I have read all the signs and realize that it is now time to SUCCEED and forget about failing in the process of moving on with my life. You know you must move on when you rely on FORCING something to try and happen -- MOVE ON, it's not worth the stress and exhaustion.

So from here, my focus has got to be on my studies. Anything other than that can kiss my @$$ until I graduate or until I have a NEED for them. But, somebody told me "things happen for a reason" and that somebody was me, I was just never listening to my own words and advice. So tonight I was reminded to "look at the positive side of things" no matter how dire the situation, because "everything happens for a reason."

Sometimes it's necessary to just worry about #1, that way nobody gets in your way of succeeding and meeting the goals you have set for yourself and your future. Go get the goals you have planned in advance and take everything extra in stride as it comes along -- let it come to you because the more you force something, the more it seems to just drift the other way.

If your goal is to graduate college, DO IT. If your goal is to become a police officer, DO IT. If your goal is to make a career out of the armed forces, DO IT. If your goal is to get a bachelor's degree and get into a career, DO IT. And if your goal is to buy a black OR silver Honda S2000 with 240HP and a manual transmission, DO IT. (me)

BUT -- when meeting your goals, don't let anything stand in your way that may prevent those goals from being obtained, no matter how much you think you want it. Not all tunnel vision is bad, just block out the things that keep you from obtaining your goal and reaching the light at the end of the tunnel.

Excuse my cliche-like advice, but it seems as if me writing this advice to others is the only way I'll really follow it myself. I gotta practice what I preach, Amen?