FLATTENING THE NEGATIVITY CURVE BY MEGAN STRAH

This time as a senior is scary as hell as it is; and a global pandemic didn’t help the process of saying goodbye in due time to the best thing that I had going for me. Uprooting my life and spending my last three months of college, home and in my twin bed, wasn’t exactly what I thought I had in store. But realizing that sometimes life isn’t all about me has been a learning curve these past few weeks. The pain of missed memories was something that was hard to swallow for me. I sat and sulked for days before I came to the realization that there is opportunity for a personal breakthrough here.

Immersing myself into the mindset of, “The world doesn’t owe me anything,” has been so freeing mentally. Telling myself that there is nothing I can change provided me with an opportunity to shift my attitude. I could either sit here and sulk about the fun times with my friends that I’m supposedly missing out on, or I could cherish this important time that I have left with my family. Playing board games, hanging out with my mom every waking hour of the day, or even taking my poor dog on seven walks per day has been so worth it for me. Cherishing the things I have left didn’t have to be with my friends at Miami. Hell, most of those friends are moving to Chicago with me. I am at peace now because I know that I had every moment I could have with the best people; even if some of that time was cut short. And that’s okay.