Life as a senior in college seems to bring out the nostalgia in everyone. Suddenly, you start either anticipating or dreading your “lasts.” The last cafeteria meal, the last chapel; the last time you can walk across a quad and be surrounded by friends.
Senior year bears a lot of change in a relatively small amount of time – and change can be scary to some. But all this change is good; with so little time left to experience this specific time in our lives, why waste it clinging sadly, desperately onto nostalgia?
I’ll argue any day of the week these final semesters weather a person down to their bare essentials – if you really want to spend time with close friends, for example, it is more of an effort. Time becomes more precious, and you stop wasting it on those things you don’t value. Life after college begins to get in the way, and I can’t say it is a bad thing.
We need to embrace the time we have left. Instead of wallowing in nostalgia (though the occasional tearful reminisce is unavoidable), truly enjoy spending the last days we have doing what we love surrounded by those we love. I say “love” because if your time here developed anything like mine, those long-term friends are more like family now.
We will work the rest of our lives away – if we aren’t already – once we leave Oklahoma Christian. Right here, right now, could easily be the last time you have this many people you enjoy being around so close by. Making an effort to toss aside my to-do list at least once or twice a week is already transforming this semester into one I’ll remember. Don’t just wish you could enjoy your semester more.
Make it so.
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