Get High Off Life

It was approximately 6:30 P.M., in Catania, Sicily Italy, around 80-degree Fahrenheit, Mount Etna was slowly erupting, and the most beautiful sunset I’d ever seen in my entire life. I was on a small sailboat with my three closest friends in the entire world sailing around the Mediterranean for an evening, high off life. In that moment, I had felt freer than I had ever before, I felt creative, light, fun, and refreshed. It is a moment that replays in my head frequently, in hopes of feeling that way every single day. Every single day I challenge myself to find that feeling, whether it be in ESP252 or in a meeting. It is most often when I am being creative, learning, or creating. Find that feeling, every single day, for this life is too damn short not to.

By: Whitley Calder

Year: Junior

Hometown: Circleville, OH

Fun fact: I am a first-generation college student!