transitions

The stark contrast of what happened in one day basically sums up what I'm currently in the midst of coming to terms with in my life.

1. Paid for rent for the first time in my life.
2. Fell down during a bike ride and managed to bang my knee up pretty badly.

The juxtaposition of these two events, while both somewhat insignificant in the grand theme of things, has not left my realm of consciousness. I'm an adult - revolutionary, I know. But, really, I am. I am 22 years old and entering into my final year of college. In one year I will embark on my career as a nurse. This entails a great number of monumental decisions in the coming year. Where will I work? What exactly do I want to do in nursing? Do I want to go to grad school? Where do I want to live? Where can I afford to live? The list goes on, too. But at the same time, I feel like a little kid, scraping my knee after I fell off of my bike. It's common knowledge that I'm not exactly the most graceful of people - meaning, I seem to be able to hurt myself doing even the must mundane tasks known to man. Even so, the majority of people with band-aids on their knees and scrapes all over their legs aren't 22 year olds - they're seven and carry superhero lunchboxes to school.

It put my life into perspective - put the transition into perspective, really. That transition between being a kid and being an adult, or, for me, still seemingly stuck in the middle.

Hmm.

Overall, the bike ride was great, though. It was something like 10 or 12 miles round trip to the beach in Oceanside. It was all 7 of us that stayed the night at the condo of friends who recently got married. Later, we sat in their backyard talking about recipes for the food we were eating and almost simultaneously all came to the realization that we're not kids anymore (clearly, when you talk about how the man of the house marinated the chicken he BBQ'd, you're an adult).

So this theme does not merely stay with me - but seems to be hitting everyone around me.

Well, at least we're in the journey together, yeah? And, at least it's a journey and a process that I'm thoroughly enjoying - as much as it teaches me that I have so much more to learn. Thankfully, I never want to stop learning.