I am a quarter away from graduation. All I can think about is how will I feel on this day. I had this talk with my father a couple of days before school. He said, “ I can’t figure you out.” My clever response was, “ How do you figure that? ” He told me that he sees potential in me that I cannot see in myself right now and that I could do anything and be anything.
For a second, I had a little doubt but I realized that my doubt stemmed from fear. What was I afraid of? I was afraid to be known and disliked. Then I thought, so what? Not everyone will like my work and me. That is just an absolute fact of life. So that fear was short –lived because I was not expecting that statement from my father.
Sacrifices make up the stepping-stones of our lives. What am I willing to give up? At first, the things that matter to me the most look grim in the face of this question but then I think, “Would I regret not taking the opportunity?” What is my mission right now? To gain experience and for that I would sacrifice spending time with my family and friends, money, sleep, change of location, and well…anything at this point. I can take the contents of my home and slap it in my storage unit, send my dog to live with my sister in Flagstaff, and go. At the moment, that is all I would have to sacrifice and that seems like a pretty short list.
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