I’m
learning to try new things, all the time if I can.
University
is over, which is a weird thing if you allow yourself a moment to think about it.
Five years pass, and you’re an entirely different person. How can that be? How
did half of a decade pass so quickly? I imagine this is how parents must feel.
I had a
bit of a quarter-life crisis before leaving school. I worried if I
would ever find a community like this again, especially one that could afford
me such opportunities as joining random clubs or finding interesting groups
of new people. I became anxious that I had spent too much time on certain
pursuits, excluding myself from others. (Who knows? I could have made a good
member of student government. Har har.)
In the
last few months of school, I made sure to try new things. I tried to return to my theatre roots, and (so so nervously) performed at a poetry
slam (run by Queen’s Poetry Slam; see video above). I read a LOT more. I
decided that I would make the switch to lactose-free milk.
Now that I’m
in a nine-to-five job, it’s becoming more important for me to keep this part of
me intact. I don’t know what it’s called just yet, but I’m pretty sure it’s
important. Which is why I’m drafting this post on the GO station platform. Which is why I still browse discount flight websites, and pick up a new hobby every once in a while. Which is why I don’t think I’ll ever stop reading, or writing, for that matter.
Perhaps,
throughout it all, I’ll be too tired. But the alternative seems pretty tiring
to me too.
