The Future, the Past, and Thank You
May 15, 2013 1:03:16 GMT -6
Post by sapphire on May 15, 2013 1:03:16 GMT -6
You guys, I graduated from college today. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing, and no clue what I'm going to do with my life. No job lined up, no place of my own (I'm moving back in with my parents for the summer).
There's a part of me that feels kind of pathetic. And I think that maybe if I'd chosen a more marketable major, I'd be on my feet right now. But then I realize that it's all okay. I have learned so much about writing, improved so much over the past four years, that I might actually make it as an author. That's worth a little uncertainty, to me.
When I left my rather rural home for New York City four years ago, I thought of it as "chasing a dream." I haven't caught that dream yet, but I'm getting there. I don't know where I'll be in a few years, but I know where I am right now, and that's a pretty good place. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to practice what I love in an amazing city.
Thank you, all of you. Even if you haven't been a member of the Echo for long, you're a part of the community that helped to give me the confidence to go after that dream, and I'm closer than ever to achieving it. You let me rant about difficult professors and gush about the amazing ones, you read my work and helped me improve, and you were a steady confidence booster, the one place I knew that I could come and be sure that I would find someone to cheer me up when I was feeling down about my writing. So thank you.
There's a part of me that feels kind of pathetic. And I think that maybe if I'd chosen a more marketable major, I'd be on my feet right now. But then I realize that it's all okay. I have learned so much about writing, improved so much over the past four years, that I might actually make it as an author. That's worth a little uncertainty, to me.
When I left my rather rural home for New York City four years ago, I thought of it as "chasing a dream." I haven't caught that dream yet, but I'm getting there. I don't know where I'll be in a few years, but I know where I am right now, and that's a pretty good place. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to practice what I love in an amazing city.
Thank you, all of you. Even if you haven't been a member of the Echo for long, you're a part of the community that helped to give me the confidence to go after that dream, and I'm closer than ever to achieving it. You let me rant about difficult professors and gush about the amazing ones, you read my work and helped me improve, and you were a steady confidence booster, the one place I knew that I could come and be sure that I would find someone to cheer me up when I was feeling down about my writing. So thank you.
. congrats! I wish you the best of Luck! if it exists so
)) xD
