Peace



As my first new post into the blog-world, hopefully the start of a new streak of consecutive posts, I would like to make an announcement. I will be attending Franklin & Marshall College next year for my next step in the education world. Located in the Amish-populated Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the school is a bastion of excellence (complete with a beautiful campus) that I am positive will be an outstanding harbor of education for me to dock at for the next four years. However, the issue at hand is not my happiness for the next four years, but the elated feeling which I am experiencing as I write this as a result of the massive weight that has been lifted from my shoulders. Mentally, I can finally call myself a free man, and that is a feeling that I cannot say that I have had since last summer.

For the past nine months, I have taken more mental abuse than I ever thought that I could withstand over the course of a lifetime. From the physical turmoil of running cross-country to the brutal abuse of college applications and eventually, decisions, I have suffered much. However, all of my hard work feels justified because I have completed the endgame that I have been executing for the better part of a year. Now I realize why I worked so hard for so long. Now, for the rest of the school year, I will be able to do my part as captain of the golf team and look foreword to next year, and the entrance into a brand new phase of my life. Certainly, changes will be made, but in the end, things will change for the better. As I learned recently, something good will always come out of a situation that appears to be hopeless.

This is a lesson that all people should be able to learn in time. It is not a lesson that can be taught in the conventional manner, as much as it is something that can be learned over time, through the sweat and tears of life experience. It is these short moments of happiness that keep us sane, because in a world dictated by turmoil and fury a moment of peace with oneself in the last sanctuary for sanity. After the completion of a major phase of life, as I am approaching now, there is a period of calm, in which the human being can come its closest to being content with their surroundings. However, these stages cannot last forever. In the end, we will always find a new challenge to worry about because we are goal-driven creatures. We work for something, and when we achieve it, we begin work on something else. Life seems to be an endless stream od challenges, most of which are self inflicted but strangely welcomed.