My commencement ceremony and it went by super fast! After 4 years and one quarter I finally did the walk that I have dreamed about for years! Heard the last set of bag pipes, last speech from a history professor and experienced the last UCR technical difficulties of the evening. The heat and humidity was as bad as I thought it would be especially with the polyester black robes and cap that insulated all the heat. Our guest speaker was MIA due to an unexpected emergency so the Dean had a plan B, which was to have one of the acting English teachers give a last minute speech on encouraging us to plan for a plan B and not feel bad about using the plan B. I was not impressed with the speech at the time because my major was already a plan B, so now I have to make a plan C, D, E to roll with the flow of the game of Life.
The ceremony lasted only 45 minutes but the wait for getting seated took 2 hours. I still would have to admit that I enjoyed my ceremony with all that could go wrong went wrong situations. Like at UCR one has learned about how things will not go smoothly or to plan because of technical difficulties or because drama or because of various adversities that were not forseen. My freshman year I had all these ambitions to do something great and be a doctor, but I left this school feeling so open to opportunities to what the road will lead me because I already did something great by getting my degree. I do not feel like I failed or let anyone down by changing my major, but I feel relieved because for the first time I am doing what makes me happy and realizing life is not just all about the money, but is about living the day as if it were your last. I originally wanted to be the doctor to help others and make my family proud, but I finally realized how I can help others with listening to their woes and helping the youth figure out what to do with their future by majoring in Psychology. I already make my family proud so all I have to do is live and make choices for the best.
Like any other fresh graduate we all have these unrealistic ambitions of getting the 100K with our first job, I have taken a few steps back to rethink about what is my next move and what are my realistic goals and dream goals and how am I going to achieve these goals in the next few days, weeks, months or years. For now the goal is to lose weight =0) get a great score on the GRE, get my masters, travel and work. I have spent 4 years working so hard that I allowed myself to miss out on the fun times with old high school friends, spending time with family and family friends for a degree. For now I want to learn how to balance it all so that my quality of life is as great as my academic life.
Live Life and not let Life Live you.....
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