"Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves." - Emily Giffin
So crazy to think that I made it through my first quarter of optometry school and I'm slowly dragging myself through second quarter. Is this reality? Am I awake? Or is this all a dream? Because honestly every time I'm taking a nap during lunch or in between classes, I wake up in a frantic panic that I've missed our 8AM exam. NO surprise there. But without a doubt, I had already taken the exam and skipped class just to take a nap instead. haha oops. Or because Donati's monotoned voice is just TOO much for me to handle after a test.
People may say that you change once you enter professional school. Okay true, but I also think you're constantly changing and growing throughout your life, just as if your lens were continuing to increase in thickness throughout life. LOL. Okay nerd alert. The most I've learned about optometry school isn't just about every intense layer of the cornea, but about who I am and who I'm going to become. And I didn't realize what I was capable of.. I didn't think I would stay up past my bedtime, or that I had to take at LEAST three exams a week. I didn't realize the greatest friends I'd make would be my family, or I didn't know the difference from a suburb girl from being a city girl.
Mainly...I didn't know that I would be forced to grow up this quickly.
So I guess you could say I'm slowly becoming a big girl now, eh? Even though I haven't grown an inch since maybe freshmen year of college.. 4'9" and going strong though yo! But that's alright, because sometimes I like to think that I'm still growing, regardless if I can reach the top of the cabinet or not. I'm still reaching the top of where I need to be. And that may not be the most superficial part, but it is the one I created for myself and only me.
Being away from the closest people that understand and know me the most has taught me to appreciate what I have and who I have. Not that I never did before, but it makes coming home worth more. Because being alone is just that; alone. I've always been an advocate for independence and sometimes independence isn't all that.
You need others by you and they need you.
And those at home are still waiting and ready to welcome the new you.
But all I've done so far is create the best version of myself each and every day.
Because wherever I belong, is where I will be myself
since everyone is already taken.
#fashionableframes #SALT
#ReKUnion
Home is the place where you feel most alive and true to yourself. #sissies
#bestiesgotyourback
#fambam #cuzluv
#citygals
#ICO beezies
#snowdaysselfies
#mochi
#startedfromthebottom
#fabfive
#chitown #citylife
#wecan'tstop #wewon'tstop
#word
P.S.
writing this, lol >.<
"You too can be carved anew
by the details of your devotions"
- Mary Oliver
love, T.
