Do You Understand?

Starting college is hard. Freshman year taught me a lot, but above all else it taught me to breath and take things one day at a time. It will all make sense eventually.

You know when you are a child

And you spin, around and around,

Until you fall on your back

And let the world turn around you?

That’s what its like to live

Where everyone knows where they are going,

When they rush past you,

Because they know who they are. 

But every time you choose a direction,

 The breath gets knocked out of you

And you fall to your knees.

 

Do you know how the earth is always moving?

And no matter how much you pray or beg,

You can’t slow it down?

That’s what it’s like to watch life go by

And not be able to catch a break;

or keep up with who you’re supposed to be.

 

But do you know what it is like to look at the stars

And feel the connection we share?

The connection between us and who we used to be?

Because that is when I was realized I was free.

Free from the pain of deciding who I was to be.

That is when I decided to let go of the lock I had bound myself to,

And let myself go.

Author's Note

I wrote this for an assignment my freshman year of college. The assignment was to reflect on our first semester of college, including the challenges we faced and what we learned.

Reviews

[Beccy]

Such an impossible task is it not, trying to figure out at such a young age, which direction to take. I can remember agonising over my 'career path' at 18 and off to uni, when all i really wanted to do was discover the reason for my existence, (among other things,) :)).

'Where everyone knows where they are going,
When they rush past you because they know who they are.'

Those few well chosen words perfectly sum up the dilemma of being on the cusp of adulthood.

Beccy.