When you're headed across the country for college semi-permanently in just a few weeks, you can't help but get sentimental. You find yourself constantly talking with your friends about how quickly time flies, or how flipping old you are, or how crazy it seems just to be at the point that you're at. But it's interesting. You start to gain a perspective on life that you realize you never had before. You start to understand that the "rest of your life" isn't just a nebulous phrase to refer to the time that will surely never come. It's no longer something only adults and really old people understand. It becomes something much more concrete, more meaningful, more within reach than you ever thought it would be. As a youngin', one never really thinks much about time in the way adults do. Next year seems like an eternity, and last month feels like a past life. But when you reach each of those year milestones in your childhood, you don't always realize, "Wow, I'm actually here now and that was a whole year ago." It's funny how time really does creep up on you.
Moving into young-adulthood, (I'm still going to be a kid forever though!) life lays before you like anticipating a sunrise. You know it will come but it lays out of sight, just beneath the horizon. You can't wait for it to finally show itself, but at the same time you wish you could just swim in the excitement and anticipation for a long while. We all end up there at some point. But time goes on and we either board the train and take it onward, or we fail to act and it departs and leaves us at the station. As a very wise, very old man once said, "It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live." (Gotta love Dumbledore quotes!) So as the train of life prepares for departure, I hope I can take that step and turn my dreams into action by getting on board, and I hope the same for each of us.
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