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Blushtales
Conference Assistant and Event Hostess @ Bingham University
Conference Assistant and Event Hostess @ Bingham University
The Things We Owe Our Years
<p>My cousin was born on my matriculation day.</p><p>By the time I graduate from university, he’ll be four. </p><p>Four years of learning, growing, </p><p>Four years of me trying to make something of myself.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes, I wonder what I’ll have to show for those years.</p><p>I don’t expect to have my entire life figured out by graduation, but I want to look back and recognise something meaningful in the time I’ve spent. I want to see that my efforts are something.</p><p><br/></p><p>It’s strange how someone’s growth can become a measure of your own time. </p><p>He will keep having birthdays and each one will remind me that another year of my life has passed.</p><p><br/></p><p>And that brings me to something I’ve been thinking about; when did we start treating time as something we must justify?</p><p><br/></p><p>Another year passes and we ask what we’ve achieved. </p><p>We reach a certain age and wonder whether we are where we should be. </p><p>we become so concerned with having something to show for our lives .</p><p><br/></p><p>we haven’t even finished living a chapter before we are worrying about how we’ll judge it when it’s over.</p><p><br/></p><p>I haven’t graduated yet, but I’m already thinking about what I’ll have accomplished by then.</p><p><br/></p><p>how many of us are so occupied with becoming the people we want to be that we struggle to appreciate the people we’re becoming.</p><p><br/></p><p>I still want to achieve great things. </p><p>I want to look back and be proud of what I’ve done with my time.</p><p><br/></p><p>But I wonder when the desire to build a meaningful life became a reason to be dissatisfied with the one we’re living.</p><p><br/></p><p>My cousin will grow regardless….Four years will pass, regardless.</p><p><br/></p><p>And when I finally graduate, I hope I’ll have accomplished the things I dream of today.</p><p><br/></p><p>But I also hope I won’t spend so much time worrying about what I’ll have to show for my life that I forget to live it.</p>
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