Back to the Future

School is starting all across the country. The air smells of freshly sharpened pencils, crisp notebook paper, text books, and coffee...to keep the students awake for those lovely A.M. classes...How many of you readers are adjusting to the school schedule all over again?

Personally, I'm done with college. Well, at least for now. I've earned my BFA and am on the job market. But plenty of my friends are trucking back to university, including one of my besties, Lawrell. Yesterday the two of us packed up the rest of her belongings and loaded up her car. As I write, she's probably on the highway headed to UNI. Her immediate future? Classes and grades; decisions and preparations for what she will "do" in life. My immediate future? Go to the mall to work my part-time job and sit on pins and needles while I wait to hear back from my latest career interview.

photo courtesy of kippefinger via flickr

Gotta admit; I'm a little jealous of Lawrell and the rest of you college kids. School is tough, no doubt, but it's fun, too. Your schedule is your choice, to a certain extent anyway. Your home is surrounded by friends. You might have anxiety about life after school, but really you know that for now, it's no big deal. Enjoy life!

After my buddy and I said our "see ya's!" and parted ways yesterday, I was very aware of the differences in our upcoming months. But I was also aware of the similarities; no matter where we are at in life, it always comes back to the future--we don't know where we are going tomorrow, but we all are going that way!