The title of this post is meant to visually describe how I feel about school right now. N E V E R E N D I N G . I am ready to be done with grad school. I am ready to spend my emotional energy and initiative (which is pretty limited to begin with) on things that feel more relevant to my life. School used to feel relevant, but at this point I feel like I've learned all I can in the classroom about counseling and am ready to just do it and start learning by trial and error. I'm ready to spend free time on sewing and collaging and being involved in my church community. I'm ready to rip up my last list of school deadlines and spend that energy keeping track of Annabel's latest words and developmental milestones. I'm ready to never tell Nate again that I can't hang out with him because I have to write a paper. I'm ready to use those precious offers of babysitting and rare opportunities to be alone for something other than homework.

...I know that God will give me what it takes to finish, but I really want to finish
strong. At this point I'm feeling dubious about the likelihood of pulling that off.
SIGH.
You can finish strong, and I really like that included sewing on your list of things to do. When I finally send you things, I want to send you a pattern for a skirt that I just made up. It's super easy, and really cute. You can wear it on the dates that you can have post-school.
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