Youth

As a student, I know that I feel the pressure to find a good internship/job and not mess around as I have in just about every summer before this. Having committed to a job in the fall, I’m at school trying to make up for the time that will be lost in the fall. I’m filling my time with classes and work. At the same time, however, I feel like freedom has been lost. I’ve come to realize that there is no longer a period of time where I can just hang out and lay around without a purpose. Summer is gone.

What I’ve longed for has finally come, but it comes with a price. I used to think that adults had the most amazing lives. As a kid I looked up to them and adored that they could go wherever they wanted to on a whim and simply go. There was no age limit or anything holding them back, but now that I’ve become a quasi-adult I now realize that there are responsibilities that come along with this age.

The age that I used to loathe because of its lack of freedom has suddenly become so attractive, but it’s gone. I suppose the moral of my story is that we should appreciate what we have while we have it. This youth isn’t something that we should attempt to hurry away, rather we should accept it as a part of who we are. We all have time to grow old. Let’s live for the now, with our eyes on the future.