Content

So this little guy came in the mail the other day. It’s a weird feeling, looking at a piece of paper proving that all of your hard work, years of stressing, crying, learning have finally been paid off. The sense of accomplishment is in this card stock paper. I thought to myself “what’s next?” I come home now from teaching my yoga classes and don’t have to rush to the computer to finish an assignment or never having that anxiety of failing a math test. It’s completely refreshing to know that I’ve completed college but again “what’s next?”

We all have things that we are looking or working towards…graduating from college, having a baby, planning a wedding, birthdays, holidays, jobs, trips, and when those things pass we look for something else to anticipate. So when Jason overheard me talking on the phone saying, “I’m just in a little rut right now, I don’t know what to do with myself.” He said, “Whitney, you just graduated from college and are teaching more yoga classes, let’s try to be happy and content with what you have right now?” He couldn’t have said it more perfectly. Even though looking towards an event is always fun and worth wild why do we always need something to look forward to? After a couple of days of sitting on this thought, I took out my sketch books, fabric to stitch, Felicity dvd’s, and a few books that I’ve been wanting to read and finally became content with myself.

So I gave my diploma one more look and tucked in between books on my shelf, having a sense of accomplishment and appreciation for what I’ve learned over the past few years and realized that it is okay to not anticipate anything quite yet…just to simply enjoy things that I actually love to do and haven’t done in quite awhile.