This month, it's been five years since I graduated from Utah State. It seems like another life ago, and it is. What hasn't happened in the last five years, seriously.
When I think back on those graduate school years, they're some of my favorite. When I decided to go back to grad school, I was 25 and having a mid life crisis. I know that's such a cliche phrase, but that's really what it was. I'd just been laid off from a job that I hadn't particularly liked and took a month to really think about what I wanted to be when I grew up. We weren't all as lucky as Heber who knew exactly what he wanted in eighth grade, right down to the company he wanted to work for.
It look me some time to know myself and to figure out what I wanted. I'd never really developed that capacity to be able to recognize what I wanted. I heard somewhere that your brain isn't fully developed until age 25. That was true for me. After a few real life lessons, I finally figured out that I wanted to go back to school and study Instructional Technology.
When I think back on that time, it was a phase in my life where I really figured out what I wanted and lived it. I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be and doing what I was supposed to be doing. When I finally applied to school, within the week, I had two perfect part time jobs and things had fallen into place.
I felt on fire those years. I was learning incredible things and creating work that I'm still proud of. I was dancing two or three nights a week with the Irish dance team. Heber and I were both working hard and going to school. We didn't see each other much but we built a strong foundation of supporting and encouraging the journey to accomplish dreams.
More than any other time in my life, I was really living true to myself. That's why those years are so special to me. I want to live all of my life like that, pushing myself toward a goal and living authentically.
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| My first day of school. See how happy I am. |
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