Over October break, the best weekend of my life occurred. On Friday, my mom thought I was being overdramatic, yet by Sunday, she conceded that it had been one of the best weekends of her life too. Hundreds of fans. Three days. So much of the cast and crew. In the town that inspired it all. Never will I ever be as happy as I was at the Gilmore Girls Fan Festival. (Unless you tell me I’ll be able to…
“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ~Lao Tzu I’m a firm believer that life experience creates the best of stories. This may explain why I haven’t posted in so long—there was nothing that I felt I could say that would capture the essence of saying good-bye to a campus I love more than would just a picture on a college brochure. There is nothing…
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” –Oscar Wilde. Every Tuesday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., I feel at peace. The people around me do, too. We sit together in a conference room and talk as old friends, sharing the latest updates in our lives. We frequently smile,…
“One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.” —Randall Jarrell. I missed childhood. I missed running into my parents’ open arms after a hard day. I missed playing in the ladybug-shaped sandbox and wildly chasing after my little sister. I missed singing along to the lyrics of The Lion King for the umpteenth time with dear friends. Most of all, I missed the wide-eyed…
Over this spring break, I had the pleasure of visiting the wonderful country of Chile. I was extremely excited for this visit, during which I would see family for the first time in years, attend a wedding, and be in the southern half of the equator to escape the long winter and spend some time in the sun. While preparing for the trip, I eagerly began to pack all of my summer apparel. As I looked at the clothing, figuring out which shorts to bring,…
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations I’ve learned to appreciate the occasional reality check; the ones where you accidentally slip over the deceptive black ice or miss a step while rushing down the stairs. But I haven’t yet fully learned that reality constantly presents itself in lovelier, seldom appreciated forms. This week, my life seemed full of contradictions: for emergency reasons, my loved ones traveled halfway across the world without me; my schedule seemed…
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?” – Rumi I love my bubble. I love this translucent, beautiful, idealized space that I perceive as my own, in which my greatest worries revolve around writing religion papers, surviving chemistry labs, and performing chest compressions on plastic dummies in EMT class. In my bubble, I endlessly distract my lovable roommate and good friend with ramblings about…