Tonight, as I was praying, I had a "step back" moment. I took a second to think about my life from the outside, from the future. It's so easy to get wrapped up in the day to day, working and trying so hard, to not really appreciate what I'm doing. Every day, I try to do my best and as much as I can, but I don't step back often enough. I have an amazing internship, and it turns out I'm actually doing something useful. I am a graduate student at Cornell University. I have finished my undergraduate degree, and have incredible friendships because of it. These are the days that some day I will say, "Well, when I was your age...". It's easy to look around me and see the 30-somethings and 40-somethings with their lives. But what I don't do often enough is realize that every day I'm putting another block into place on my life, creating the foundation and setting the course where it will go.
I thought to myself this weekend, "If in my later years, I decide to take an autobiography course, I don't want my book to be boring." (I saw an advertisement for just such a course while visiting my grandparents who are living in a retirement community now. If you've ever seen "In Her Shoes", it's something like that, except in the Midwest).
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i can't remember the last time i stepped back. i guess i feel too overwhelmed to do it. bad.
and i didn't tell you happy birthday, either.
happy birthday, my dear corinne. you are a wonderful and amazing person and i don't tell you that enough.
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