Remember how it's already finals week??
Well, it is, and I can't believe it.
I guess it's true when they say that time just shoots by once you graduate from high school, because I'm 93% positive this semester started like a week ago.
I mean, I don't feel any smarter. Or older.
So I don't understand how it's possible that 4 months went by.
But here I am, sitting in the freezing computing commons with the gloom & doom of finals looming (ha, rhyming...) over my head.
And I know I should be studying for the oh-so-lovely finance test that I have to take tomorrow at SEVEN THIRTY in the flipping morning, (seven thirty!...!!) but I feel like this is important, ya know?
I mean, someday when my kids don't believe me when I tell them that time flies faster than an Olympic gold-medalist sprinter (and that's fast) once you're an adult, I'll be able to whip out this post & be like,
"Ha. Here I was, 21 years-old and realizing that time moves freakin fast and everyone was right. Proof! Suckas!"
Except I probably won't call my children "Suckas".
Let's be real, I probably will.
The point is, when you're a kid life is like internet with dial-up. Kinda annoying and doesn't go nearly as fast as you would like it to.
But then BAM, out of nowhere you're suddenly an adult with the high-speed connection, and now you have a million things you have to do at once because I mean come on, with that kind of speed why waste it? So you're going crazy trying to download all sorts of programs & multi-tasking with different browsers, and then you crash.
Life would be much simpler if it just stuck with dial-up.
So anywaaaay, after all of that nonsense that you probably skipped through, my point is this:
Finals are this week.
And I kind of want to die.
The end.
On a serious note:
I strongly encourage, no, IMPLORE each one of you to find a way to make someone else's life happier this season.
There is so, so much sadness in the world & in our community that it is absolutely ridiculous to not help in some way.
It overwhelms me when I think of the trials and heartache that some people have to go through.
Not just people in Botswana or Somalia (though they need our help too),
but people here.
A mom & a dad who have a 5 year-old daughter with brain cancer
A wife who doesn't know if her husband will live
Families that are fighting off homelessness because they lost their jobs
Death
Disease...
it's everywhere.
I don't say this to make you hopeless and depressed, but to make you determined and hopeful.
Hopeful that you can make a difference in someone else's life.
I know we all have our own trials, but there is always someone who has it worse than you. If you don't have any money (aka muah) then donate your time. If you don't have any time, then donate your money. If you don't have either, then what are you doing reading my blog?? That 5 minutes could've been used to help the needy.
There are a million ways you can do something. Anything helps.
:)
