Ends & Beginnings

I officially walked in my graduation ceremonies 3 weeks ago. At the ceremonies the student speakers always mentioned something about how "this isn't only an end but also a beginning." Of course, we hear this at every graduation. But it didn't really hit me until yesterday that it's more of an end than I've been allowing myself to believe.

Over the past weekend I officially moved out of the apartment. With the help of my awesomely awesome boyfriend, his cousin, and some friends, I finally got ALL my stuff out over a 3-day period (I don't even have that much stuff). I also had to clean the apartment. It was a really stressful experience, and moving in general is such a pain, especially since my family moved over spring break back home as well (moving twice in a year, ugh).

After all of this, though, it finally came down to me looking at my completely empty apartment and realizing how good this home was to me for the past 2 years, the last 2 years of my college life. I learned SO MUCH about myself and life in general living in this apartment (and even before that!), I was actually really sad as I was putting my keys away. Please believe that if Amanda were there with me, we probably would've been bawling on the floor together. Instead I had to hold it together in front of my guy roommate :P

Needless to say, I'm now living in a new place.. In a sort of limbo until I get myself back out there. It's always hard to move on from a really important person/place/object in your life, but if it must be done it will be.

With all that said, I have the rest of my life to look forward to. It's time to end the college chapter of my life and open the next one.. Whatever it may be. I never thought I'd get here but it's here, and sooner than I had hoped. But with all the memories that came with that apartment and the past couple of years, I could take everything I've learned and keep growing and learning as I should be.

Of course I'll be a bit sad and sentimental about it for a little while longer... But, like Amanda said, we could always break in sometime in the future and re-live the memories! Hehe, jk. Kinda :P

Channing&Fulton, you've been so good to me. (: