Off, Off, and Away

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