i struggled with this and was too excited about college ending but i decided a few weeks before that I’d actually miss this time and i began telling myself that I’d never get this version of me back again — it honestly shifted how I saw those last few weeks + i felt more present after that instead of feeling like i was already living in the future (not very practical i know but i hope this helps <3)
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I’m graduating from college soon! But I’ve mostly been stressed and busy yet simultaneously tired and unproductive. Yknow, routine. But this is my last month, and I’ve barely seen people and don’t want it to pass me by.
Any ideas?
Apr 10, 2025
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I hated college when I was there but I miss it so much everyday. I miss smiling at people in the hallway and doing homework. I think it’s good to reflect and appreciate things, even if you didn’t appreciate it in the moment. Having something to yearn about will push you to greater places.
Jan 8, 2025
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the feeling of, after dreaming about it your whole life, getting into college and planning to move out of my parents house is so crazy, a couple of years ago this was just dreams and impossible thoughts but now IM ACTUALLY DOING IT ITS SO INCREDIBLE
Jan 26, 2025
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i know it sounds so cliché but i work for a climate organisation & i just came home from a work event so i’m feeling very inspired/energised/refreshed…please find your community because it is tiring, draining, & almost impossible to drive social change alone. you don’t have to do it alone.
A community helps your cause. We protest, meet, rally, & cry in numbers for this reason. 💜
Jun 29, 2024
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i really also think about how much boys are taught ways to perform masculinity & how it is legitimised through tangible things like building a career etc but with women i find that from a young age our identity, behaviours, & thoughts are always spoken about in relation to other people/things — gender roles within the family, how we’re perceived by men, our friendships with other women, our relationships with material things etc etc — and this shows up in the labels that women are often given too! so and so is someone’s daughter, girlfriend, wife, mother etc etc. i envy the freedom of boyhood so much, the freedom to just be (this is not to discount the toxicity of traditional masculinity, i just think that boys are still afforded more “play” and therefore have more opportunities to develop their sense of self).
maybe i am also biased because of how i’ve grown up & whatnot but i never really understood what it meant to quote unquote be a woman or perform femininity. i only saw this modelled within my nurturing friendships with women as i’ve gotten older but when i was younger, in church it was always “ok well don’t do this or that because x y z will happen to men if you do” or within my extended family it was often “are you seeing anyone? when are you having kids”. damn what happened to asking about how i’m doing or what my dreams are!!!
long rant sorry !! but that’s my long winded way of saying “i feel you” haha
Jun 28, 2024
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i am starting to realise how detrimental & unfair it is to not only myself but also the people around me because i then hold them to unreachable standards.
we are learning!! not there yet but slowly and surely
Jul 2, 2024