Editor's Note
What do you do when a chapter ends? Do you close the book or read it again? Moving on is inevitable but being able to fully understand the changes that are occurring is to wish for the impossible. I chose ignorance, I chose to live in a limbo of my choosing, one where there’s no rules, no expectations, no desire to achieve the unachievable. Here I simply exist, and create and cruise through life with no greater agitation that what I’m going to have for dinner.
I’m just kidding, I’m the most uptight and organized person you’ll ever meet, but this doesn’t stop me from fantasizing and playing with the idea of surprise. With every decision we make there’s a consequence. The magnitude of this consequence depends on the grandness of our choice. We, the individuals that form society, we, are all composed of the stupidity and insignificance of the daily choices we make.
I know, I know, I’m so dramatic. But to be honest whenever I am feeling overwhelmed it always helps to think about my insignificance in the spectrum of life. Perspective is everything, so when I notice that I’m just one of the seven point three billion people who are living and breathing, me failing an AP Chemistry quiz isn’t that bad.
What I’m trying to say here is that change is inevitable, but how we handle such change is what defines us. Through the years I’ve become someone I wouldn’t have recognized. I moved on from everything that was holding me back and making me unhappy. I let go. And I’m letting go now.