So I finally have a bachelor's degree. And as I look back on the last 4.5 years, 5 things come to mind. 1) start the road to financial independence at 19, 2) transfer to Penn and survive..., 3) realize I don't want to go to medical school, 4) go to Africa (enough said), 5) work 5 jobs in 1 summer, the list could probably go on, but I'll spare you. Basically, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. I am a nurse now. Not sure how I feel about that. But I sure am ready for this real world all those grown folks speak of. Though I feel like I've been living in it.
The Holidays...so much money is spent on frivolous crap and all I think about is the starving children I met in Africa. Yes, everyone works hard, everyone deserves to have stuff, I like stuff as well, but sometimes, I wonder if any of it is really necessary. Does stuff replace true happiness? Hindu philosophers will never hesitate to say that it does not. But who knows...not me.
Now New Years on the other hand, this "holiday" is definitely one of my favorites. People are so happy. Simply because 1 number changes. But what makes it so special is the fact that many of us put so much faith in the changing of the year, we place our hopes and dreams on the prospect that a new year means change, and change for some, is good. I am one of those people. And this year will surely bring change. 1) Obamarama. 2) Komal Patel, RN, BSN 3) my big sister's wedding extravaganza, 4) start graduate school in September, 5) unrelenting financial independence, 6) work in a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit aka take care of really sick people with wicked vascular brain injury 7) and finally this so-called real world.
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