Post–Graduation: Life Is A Cartoon Snake

It’s been almost 2 weeks since I finished college. I knew I would be ecstatic when it was all over: I’d dreamed of this moment for years.

These days, I wake up and my mind is light and free. But I’m not jumping up and down. I don’t even often realize my newly earned happiness. Strangely, when a dream came true, I almost forgot it once was just a dream.

It’s extraordinary how our minds and bodies heal. In the past 365 days I have been through heaven and hell. Today, sitting here, I’m amazed by how at peace I am with myself. More than ever before the saying infiltrates me: this too shall pass.

It’s funny how when things are bad, we assume they will stay bad forever. When things are good, we hastily enter a state of euphoria and assume nothing will ever go wrong. Unfortunately this is far from the truth. Life is like a cartoon snake:

or a zig zag shape, a sin/cos graph, or an ocean with high and low waves. Whichever suits your imagination best. Life takes us up and down, right and left. The universe is so hustling with energy to lounge idly around, and us too little: who are we to demand a standstill? So hang on in there when you’re on the down low, and maybe, just maybe, before you know it, your life will change for the better.

Or maybe that brief window of heaven is a once-in-a-lifetime thing that will never return. That’s ok. You might not get back to heaven, but you won’t stay in hell forever. Things always change, and little me here is simply enjoy my brief peace before the next storm.

“That’s why life is like an Ocean,

some times its at peace other times

it's raging like a storm

But life is only what you make it to be.”

(Source:http://timbooktu.com/)