:: Thursday, August 29, 2002 ::

"Yeah, how long must you wait for it?" (Coldplay)

Peanut-butter M&M's in the afternoon laziness... The air is scented with autumn hopes, the evidence of things unseen.
Classes are not grabbing me with ambition like usual this year. I often find myself staring off, not into space, but into a whole different world... There is never a moment when music is not shimmering in my head, when idyllic scenes don't vie for my attention. For all my logical tendencies, I’m a daydreamer to the core. Unfortunately, “we at LeTourneau University” frown on imaginary adventures while class is in session.
So strange to be a bonafide upper-classman. Time here moves at the speed of chaos, though not quickly enough for dreams. Sometimes it feels like I’ve never not been a college student, but only yesterday I was learning that “Saga” refers to the cafeteria (and everything therein), where to buy textbooks, and which professors to avoid if sanity holds any value.
I’m not exactly listless, but I’m dissatisfied. Life is too short to always be waiting and preparing for that elusive Someday. I feel like I have more potential now than ever again to experience life, fall in love, devote myself to scratching the surface of eternity. Any wonder why classwork = stagnation in my mind?
I won’t leave school. I won’t give up my academic pursuit because of boredom. However, I won’t wait for Someday to start. Where there are people, there are opportunities; when used properly, opportunities can yield the greatest beauty in God’s imagination.
Thus commences Operation Life. Hello world, so glad you could come…

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:: Bethany Bassett - 2:38 PM :: + ::