The countdown begins. 10.

Ten days from now, I'll be 700 miles away from the home I've lived in for the past twenty years.

I don't know whether to laugh, smile, cry, or scream. I've never felt so excited yet so nervous in my life. I know everything is going to be fine, only because it has to be. 
Because I need it to be.

Five days from now will be my last day at the job I've had for over two years. A silly little part time job which turned into my first ever manager position, and left me with a second family, a home away from home if you will.

Maybe I'm not completely freaking out because I'm not fully packed yet, because in my mind I still have ten days. It took me this long to realize how fast ten days actually passes. 

I've decided that for the next ten days, I'm going to journal on this blog as if it were my diary. I'm going to document it on here so that maybe in ten years, ill look back and remember how empty and how full I felt at this very moment. 

If you're beginning a new journey, you're not alone. 
You're allowed to laugh, smile, scream, and cry. 
You're allowed to feel homesick, and free.
 It's okay. Because it has to be. 

I'll see you tomorrow, lovelies.

And if your journey begins then, I wish you nothing but the best.

Until then,

K.

Time flies.

I honestly cannot believe how fast time flies.
How cliche, right?
Wrong.
Whoever said that first was honestly so brilliant.

If you would have told me five years ago tonight that I'd be graduating college in a week, I'd laugh in your face and run off with a bunch of people I haven't spoken to since.
Because if you would have told me two years ago that I'd be graduating college in a week, I'd probably ignore you and continue studying like a mad woman, not knowing where my life was headed.
Yet tonight, I'm here, after a long week of stress and aggravation  knowing that I am seven credits away from my associates degree, and two months away from the biggest change I've ever been faced with.

My advice to anyone who is finishing up with any type of schooling right now, is to a take a deep breath, relax for even a moment, and realize how lucky you are, and think about where you were five years ago. Could you imagine yourself here? And in five years, will you be proud of this week?
I know how stressful this past month is for anyone in school, but think about the weeks to come, and how amazing summer will be. It'll all  be worth it in the end. If even for a second you can say that you were proud of how hard you worked to get to where you are right now, it'll be worth it. I promise you that.


We made it this far.
Here's to the weeks, months, and years to come.
Here's to us.
-K.