The stuff between the chapters.

You know what I think of when College comes to mind?  It is days like these.  The weather is absolutely beautiful.  There is not a cloud in the sky.  It is about 70 degrees with a light breeze.   Nothing could be better.  But it is also days like these that make me miss home.  The weather here is almost never this nice and we have been blessed to have it for two weeks.

My apartment has a spacious front yard of approximately 3 square feet.  Needless to say I miss my acre at home where I can run around and enjoy nature on occasion.

All this brings back memories of when I was in the Boy Scouts.  Spending time in the woods and on endless adventures in nature.  I have quite a few stories from over the years with the Boy Scouts (Just ask me about the first time I went to summer camp.)  I can proudly say that I was in the Scouts from the age of 3 till I was 18.  I also went all the way from Tiger Cub to Eagle Scout.  It amazes me how little I think about that one thing that took up such a large part of my life.

Oftentimes I can do this with people in my life also.  There are friends that I have not talked to in months.  They were a large part of my life at one point and yet now I cannot take the ten minuets to call and see how they are doing.  I guess that is how life changes.  One moment you’re in one place and the next you are in another.  If you told me that I would be where I am today when I first came to college, I would have thought you were crazy!  And yet another chapter is going to be ending soon.  I wonder where I will end up then?

I remember the first night I stayed in my dorm room at college.  I thought for so long during high school what it would be like to be at college and now it was here.  We often call a big stepping-stone in our lives a chapter.  Movies tend to showcase this beautiful moment of ecstasy in our lives only to then run to the credits.  The truth is that life keeps going beyond that one moment.  After that sad moment in your life it does not cut to five years later.  You live out the moment.  You feel the pain and continue to overcome it.

We as humans have come to a point where we think life has to be one big moment to the next.  Although I sometimes struggle with that, I’ve also learned the truth about life is that it is really about the small moments.  It’s about the time that I sit down and write a blog post.  It’s about the time that I go and eat dinner with a friend on a whim.  These things might be something that we don’t remember in twenty years when we look back, but they are what define us as a person.  These day-to-day decisions affect our careers, relationships, finances, and much more.  It is the combination of these moments that create the big “chapters” that we experience.  When we look back we tend to only see the name of each chapter and a few snapshots but forget the small things.

I will probably never think again about tonight and this blog post I wrote.  Of course the internet has given me the ability to look back and read what I wrote, but I will not be able to remember what events took place on this day twenty years from now.  Yet a lot of important things happened to me today.  Today is a beautiful day, but I won’t remember it any more than all the others.  In spite of that, I’m glad it was pretty outside today.  I’m going for a walk.

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