Wake up at 9am. Shower. Out of toothpaste. Miss the bus. Run
to class. Walk in the lecture hall ten minutes late while everyone stares in
your direction. Forgot the assignment was due today. Spill your coffee all over
your white t-shirt. Oversleep for class number two. Stay up until 4am to write a
seven page paper.
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God, life can suck. As people age it seems like the bad days
continuously outnumber the good days, and even the good days are only good, not
great. It’s hard to live in the moment if the moment is awful. The moment makes
you dread the next moment because from these moment’s past record, the next one
is no better than the last.
How can a person embrace each minute of each day if all that
the seconds bring are stress? Countless amounts of peers tell me to be thankful
I am a freshman, that if they could they would rewind their years and do it
over again. And I’m positive I’ll say the same come my senior graduation. However,
as of now, I do not want to live in the moment, I want to fast forward the
moment, or at least all the tribulations that come with the moment.
Rather than living in the moment, we should merely remember
the moment. That way, the next moment will be ten times as sweet compared to
the seconds before. Living in the moment will only discourage you to not want to live for the next moment.
Sure, now that we look back on it, yesterday was great. But
that’s only because we are living in today.
I have to remind myself of this weekly. When I have papers due and readings piling up, I just want to curl up and sleep the year away so I don't have to deal with the stress. But you're right, we are young, and these are some of the best days of our lives, if only we could stop and appreciate them more.
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