Moving along

I'm five days into being 22 and it isn't really that awesome so far. Not that I thought it would be awesomer than any other year but I thought I had some good things going. Ok, I still have a lot of good things going for me but it's been a bit rough. I took a hit in the relationship arena which was unexpected yet not. I suppose I saw it coming but denied it and/or thought there was more time until it did happen. So I'm dealing with that, in a very mature and adult way if I may say so. But it doesn't feel very good. Fortunately, I have an excellent family and excellent friends who care a lot about me. That helps.

In other areas, I almost have my grad school application list done. They aren't top tier schools at all but I think I could be happy at any one of them. Anyway, I'm only going for my MA right now so it's essentially a holding pattern until I know what I want to study specifically and where. And though I still have those tendencies of wanting to go to the best schools and have the impressive names to back me up, I'm able to acknowledge that all that doesn't make me happy. I need a place where I can be more than just what I study and I think the schools I'm looking at provide that, or if they don't, their locations do.

And so, nearly a week into being 22, I don't feel much different than a year ago. Perhaps I should be thankful for such relative stability.