School can be time consuming. Every day you and handed more and more work that must be done within a short time, so you run home and bury yourself in your books, never seeing the light of day, hiding from the world...like Edward does in Twilight...only he doesn't study, he reads magazines and listens to music...and spies on Bella...
ANYWAY!
As I was driving home from a friends house the other night and stopped at a red light, I looked out my window and noticed something. The season had changed. It was now autumn. Most of the leaves on the trees had fallen, the air was crisp, sky was clear and the pond had dozens of geese sleeping upon it.
In that moment I recalled how much I love the fall. Everything about it, even the hissing geese. I actually love geese. When they hiss and chase me angrily around the park I laugh, throwing bread behind me in different directions as I make a serpentine line to the parks' entrance, hoping to confuse the large bird.
...and to think, I almost missed it. I almost missed my favorite season because I'd been so busy with school. I had an epiphany at that moment, that I thought I should share with all of you:
Step back from school, and look around.
My city can suck in the Winter. It's cold as sin and sometimes it feels like it will never be warm again, but other seasons are just so beautiful it's hard for me to ever imagine leaving Winnipeg. I've been so absorbed in school, letting it twist around me and trap me, much like my sheets do every morning. I realized that if I didn't step back and take a night off from school that I would miss my favorite time of year and my life would slowly spiral downward into nothing but the ninth circle of school hell.
So that's what I did. Last Saturday I put the school work aside and went to a house party, where my best friend and I went outside and played in the leaves.
...yes, that is exactly what it sounds like. We ran around in circles throwing the leaves above our heads and rolled around in piles of them. It was a wonderful time. I smelt like Autumn all night. I want to make a habit of doing this on a weekly basis until the snow comes. I had so much fun and it made me feel so much better about my schoolwork the next day. It recharged my tired batteries and made me ready and happy for the following week.
I felt I've been at a low point for the last two weeks, thinking that I couldn't keep up with the work load and that I was falling behind in each class, but now I think that those feelings may have been due to my lack of balancing my life. Do what you have to for school, and then have fun. Step back, look around and enjoy life. School doesn't have to become your life, just a part of it, and if you balance both correctly you'll succeed at both! ...yes, that last line was a little repetitive, I'll work on coming up with a new 'balancing life/school' slogan for next time.
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