A letter to my newly fostered bonds
I love you.
I am so beyond lucky and want to take the time to fully reflect on how blessed I am. To have had the chance to meet each new person that I have met. To have had to ability to continue the friendships I have already made. I am lucky to have found a person who I feel connected with.
College is an opportunity for education, but also an opportunity to find and discover those who are to be loved and love you. I have found people at college already that I know will be a part of my life for a long time, I hope. For this, I am the luckiest person I know. I want to reflect on how special this is to have the ability to foster connections with new people and to learn about each and every person.
I cannot imagine what life would be like had I never had the opportunity to fall in love with each person I now consider a new friend. I set a goal, I suppose you would call it, for the coming year where I work to love each and every person to my fullest ability. I hope to foster my soul into grace and immerse myself in the mindset of love. Not only for other people, but also myself. I am at a point in my life that most consider the glory years, foundational years. I am living here now. I also hope to work on being in the present moment.
I know these actions will not only be good for the soul, but for those I touch around me. I want to be someone who is good. I am working on becoming this person for myself.
To draw back attention to my new friendships, I can’t wait to make more memories with these people. I can’t wait to learn more about these people and what makes them beautiful and ugly. I am excited to continue to be a friend of theirs. I am excited for more family dinners. I am excited for more parties. I am excited to explore our country together, give or take. I am excited for more triathlon practices together. I am grateful for my new friends. I am so lucky.
I feel wrapped in an essence of gratefulness, love and joy. I am also excited to evolve into myself. I can already feel it start to happen as the previous year concluded. I am making changes on who I was to become who I want to be, and I do this actively. While, sometimes I do fall off course, I am still working to remind myself of who I want to become and that growth is essential to the human experience. Although, while growth is crucial, I must remind myself that always being in a state of growth isn’t healthy either. We must find prosperity in the moment that is now. We must learn to love where we are now and love who we are now even if it isn’t who we want to be just yet.
Life is beautiful and I cannot wait to continue to enjoy my existence. I am excited to enjoy existing with my new bonds. I am excited to laugh more and love more. I am excited to travel more. I am just excited, even for the bad. To be breathing is a blessing and to be breathing with the people I have met so far in my lifetime is phenomenal. We have made these bonds for a reason as the people around us are here to impact us, whether that is big or small. Life is awesome.
