The Fire

Well blogging world, it’s been a while. I’ve decided to come back to blogging, at least for a time, right hear on Ruby’s Serendipity. I’m basically too lazy to start up a new blog, and I’ve decided that I really like having semi-anonymity for blogging. I mean, when I really think about it, I don’t actually want everyone that I personally know to read this. If I did, I would have plastered links to this across social networking sites long ago, shamelessly promoting my mental regurgitation, because let’s face it: I’m not going to edit and reedit anything that goes on here, and I really don’t want to put any raw material in front of all the English and lit teachers that I know (not to mention colleges considering my applications).

Anyway, let’s start catching up on life. College is probably a good place to start, since it takes up about 60% of my waking conscious. I’m in a couple of classes out at the community college here, which is…fine. I wouldn’t want to spend more than a couple of part-time semesters out here, but it isn’t too bad. I’ve sent in applications to the three schools I finally narrowed down after three years of intense searching and many campus visits, but I won’t find out about acceptance until March. I’m pretty sure I’ll lose weight from the stress of waiting. Oh right, summer—I skipped half of that, didn’t I? Well, it was pretty great. I got my license, and realized that freedom (minus the price of gas) really is all it’s cracked up to be. That must be a first. I spent two weeks down in Tennessee at a world view training seminar, Summit, and made some amazing new friends—not to mention gaining a crazy travel epic (it’s too long to just be a story…because I like to make it sound extremely dramatic) when flying down with a friend of mine. I laughed, I cried, I learned a lot, let my brain atrophy several hours a night to make up for it, I made new friends while realizing who my true friends were, and I hope that, through it all, I grew. I think I did, at least.

Growth, as I’m sure you all know, can be painful. In fact, I’m not sure that I’ve experienced any that wasn’t. Sometimes, as I sit back, rubbing my eyes that are smarting after endless hours spent researching at the computer, I wish that I could just skip this portion of my life—I just want to get on to where I’m in college, or where I graduate, or where I have a job, or just anywhere but where I am. I have to remind myself that our lives are refined by the trials set before us, and we must not only weather them, but learn from them. As Thoreau said, “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” Here’s to eternity, everyone!