Topic Tuesday - You Are Here

Welcome to Topic Tuesday!! Okay, for those of you who don't know what that is (which is all of you), my friends Megan and Claudia and I all pick a topic together. Then we each blog about it without talking to each other. The point? To see what three different people think about the same subject!

And for fun of course.

So, after you're done reading mine, you can click on Claud & Megan's names above to go to their blogs and see what they wrote.

Today's topic, in case you couldn't already tell, is "You Are Here." Well, where is "here" and why am I . . . "here?"

When I first thought of this, the weirdest thing came to mind. I remember back in my sophomore year of high school, we got this paper that was supposed to help prepare us for college. It looked like a LIFE game board, complete with weird cartoon drawings. Each square was a class you needed to take or a test or whatever other requirements you had to meet to be what California deems an acceptable college applicant. Of course, being my mature 14-year-old self, I laughed and threw it away. My reasoning? I was going to BYU and not one of the UC schools. I didn't need it.

Boy, do I wish I had one of those now.

Not for college. Obviously I made it. I wish I had one for life. One that showed me what step came next and what path I was supposed to be taking. But then again . . .

Wouldn't it be suffocating to have a set path and every step laid out for you?

I'm getting off topic.

So, where is "here?

"Here" is straddling what my life was and what it is becoming. One foot is in my childhood days where I am still living with my parents and my biggest cares are having college-worthy grades, having money for the weekend, or which friends were fighting. The other foot is in my college days, trying to pull me forward. Now I'm worried about money to survive, picking the right classes, and trying to figure out what I'm going to do with the rest of my life.

"Here" is a transitioning period.

I'm sorting my life out, figuring out what I want. I'm building, organizing, enjoying, fighting through it. Where do I go? Well, I'm figuring that out too. I've got at least two more years to do it.

For now, this is my circle. I decide whether to break it and let people in or to keep it closed and protect what I have.

I am here.

~Sydney