For four years, we laughed, cried, and trudged through the exhaustion that is college life.
At the time, all we could think about was getting out and moving on.
We talked about dreams and how we couldnt wait to start life.
Thomas Griesbeck
Walking through campus today as a grown woman, memories came flooding back.
Good memories, hard memories, and memories we made together.
It made me sad that all those moments slipped away so fast.
Thomas Griesbeck
It made me sad that I didnt even realize what Id be missing.
For four years, we laughed, cried, and trudged through the exhaustion that is college life.
At the time, all we could think about was getting out and moving on.
We talked about dreams and how we couldnt wait to start life.
Everyone told us college goes fast and wed miss it, but we didnt listen.
We were in such a hurry to grow up and move on.
We complained and moaned and whined about our exhaustion.
Now those inside jokes we made and those moments we had are faded memories.
Weve traded our weekly frozen mocha runs for the doldrums of adult life.
We still talk, and we still share our laughs.
I wish wed have taken a little longer to soak it all in.
But we didnt know.How could we have known?
They werent great years because of a lack of responsibility or because of an excess of freedom.
They were the years we decided who we wanted to beand none of it felt out of reach.
Reality hadnt tainted our perfect views, and working hard made everything feel within reach.
We felt like the world could be ours, and we were energized by that thought.
So today, standing on campus, I took a picture to remember.
It took a picture to remember, but maybe I didnt need to.
We didnt hold those moments tightly when they were happening because we didnt know they would be important.
We didnt know they would shape us and move us into the adults weve become.
But now we know.
