Off into the great wide unknown.
The chapter of my life known as High School is rapidly
coming to an end. I have 5 academic days, and 13 days until I graduate and go
of into ‘the real world’. Or, as I like to think of it, the great wide unknown.
But more than starting a new chapter of my life I’m also
walking into a new time in my life. I’m entering a time in my life that has the
potential to be beautiful and magical in ways I may not ever imagine until I’m
in the midst of them.
If I could give any bit of advice I would tell you to go.
To branch out
To see the world
To discover
To dream
To make those dreams come true
I would tell you to be bold
To jump out of the boat and into the water
I would tell you to run and never stop
To leave and not look back
Because this is the time, the only time, in your life when
you can do just that.
You can go.
You have the ability to do whatever you want to do,
to be whoever you want to be.
Go where ever the wind blows you,
fly by the seat of your pants.
Don’t take this time for granted, and don’t say ‘Oh, I’ll do
that later in life’ because honestly, you won’t. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.” (– Mark Twain)
Don’t look back
on this time and wish you had done something differently with it. No one
regrets that chances they did take as much as the ones they didn’t.
So take the
chance.
The young do
not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and
achieve it, generation after generation.
-Pearl Buck
