“All the usual places, the same destinations, only
something has changed”
Today is the 23rd of June. In three days,
I will have earned my Master’s in Business Administration. It’s a dream come
true and a dream I have longed to achieve since I was very young. I haven’t
been this excited about my future since I went away to college at age eighteen.
The chance of playing college tennis was one of the leading contributors to
that excitement eleven years ago. Today’s excitement is a different type. It’s
a contentment I have not felt for a long while. It’s a happiness I’ve stored
away for the right time. The road we walk is often treacherous and lengthy.
There are no guarantees, but I can finally say I’ve conquered the gravel path. I’m
looking forward to the upcoming year and my relocation to Austin, Texas in one
month. The city represents to me a step in the direction of the future I
dreamed up when I first discovered my dreams. The excited feeling I now possess
is like picking up a tennis racquet for the first time after a difficult
winter. When that sun is shining, the only place I want to be is on the tennis
court. It’s the first swing of the season, the one I’ve anticipated all too long.
I’m grateful for all that has happened this past
year: the friends I’ve met, the opportunities that have rolled my way, good
health that keeps me going. I’m most thankful for the future waiting in the
wings like the feather tip of a tennis ball in the wind. I think to the future
and what it will mean for my dreams and bring to my life. There is still so
much I want to accomplish, so much to be done. As graduation nears, I think it’s
important to understand the prerequisite for success is a vision, hard work and
persistence. Taking life one slice at a time is the only way to reach the apex.
Whatever it is you want to achieve, whoever it is you envision in your future,
don’t give up on that. Be persistent in your goals, but take life as it comes
too. You can’t control the elements of the game any more than you can control
the forces of this unpredictable world. It’s a hard lesson to grasp if you’re
anything like me and are striving to reach that apex in your life. Sometimes
life just takes over, and you’re forced to go with the flow…and you may find
yourself, too, dreaming of cowboys in Austin, Texas.
“Now is greater than the whole of the past”
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