It’s a rain soaked, everything getting drizzled on kind of a Wednesday. The routines are setting in hard and fast, and everyone around me, both in college and not, are in that overwhelming stage. You know the one, where sleep becomes more optional, where the workloads and expectations rise, where summer is behind us and the holidays way too far ahead. I’ve not been the best about finding creative space or time to write, but then I found these words I’d written, and wow, they are so accurate for right now. So here’s to the grind of the everyday and those going through it.
College life. It is one of the best experiences and also one of the hardest I have encountered. On one of the last Saturdays of the semester, I found myself holed up in the coffee shop with a long list of things to do. Yet I got dazed from responsibility and instead found myself in a haze of thought. I wrote this as an inside picture into what the stressed-out brain of a college student contemplates, at least from my perspective. Stressed Out by Twenty One Pilots may have been the soundtrack for this. 😉
The books have piled up
The words are lost in my brain
Everything overwhelms
Nothing settles enough
Round and round carousel game
Maybe there’s more to these ideas and presentations than we know
So while the grind is slowly wearing me down and overwhelming
Changing the world happens everyday and that enough is compelling
To dig deep and give it the best I have because this season won’t last
And these years are where we discover more traces of our design and the beauty that lasts
May I never let this everyday routine grow so old
That I miss out on living, the importance of each moment, and being alive
And always slowly progress towards thriving in this time
