Changes

Especially as a freshmen, the first year of college brings about a lot of new experiences. Your environment is changing, your interests are evolving, and you have acquired new knowledge about the world around you that you didn’t have before. However, as all of this is happening, you may realize yourself changing in some ways too. A lot of people have this notion that change is bad thing. So many people are afraid to step beyond their comfort zones, but this fear itself is what can lead to real problems.

When you have been away from people for a while, noticing differences in the way they look or act seems more obvious. Whether its physical changes or personal traits, people are bound to be different as they go through life, especially after leaving home for the first time. Some changes are good and some are bad, but either way, we can use them to learn something. Mistakes are an inevitable part of life, and they can happen a lot in college. Part of the process of maturity, though, is learning to make sense of our actions and choices. Being away from home, students are forced to deal with things for themselves. The days of parents fighting your battles and helping you through every little thing moves beyond you, forcing a person into a position of independence and self reliance. A lot of times, people don’t realize how much they have learned to tackle obstacles on their own, but it’s an essential skill for survival that college helps to initiate.

More than just the changes in who we are, we make changes in what we do. You might change your major a couple of times, change the group of people you spend time with, change your look, or just change your perspective. But luckily for college students, now is not a bad time to do it. Making changes can come at a risk, but the motivation behind changes and the greater goal attached to them, serves to make us better in the long run. Making changes is so much harder than people realize. Forcing ourselves out of our habits, taking on a new attitude, and trying to implement goals requires a consistency that a lot of people don’t possess.

Prioritizing what we want and executing a plan to get it is the only way to make changes. Someone once told me to replace “I don’t have time” with “It’s not a priority” whenever I talk about things I want to do, but complain I can’t get done. This really stuck with me because it creates a feeling of tension. There are a lot of changes people want to make, but priority determines which ones get carried out. I think a person’s priorities can say a lot about them, but that’s not to say they can never change what they are working towards. There are 3 C’s to remember in life: choice, chance, and change. To carry them out, “You must make the choice, to take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.”

One thought on “Changes

  1. I really like your blog. I think it is very relatable for college students, and an interesting blog to read especially for us as college students.
    The way you present the different aspects of change, and how change can be a good thing truly speaks in your writing. “More than just the changes in who we are, we make changes in what we do.” I really like this sentence, it highlights that change is not one thing, it culminates a variety of things that are a part of life. Accepting and working through change is something that I have found hard, but exciting at the same time.
    I really like this blog because it provides insight to the world of adapting to a new environment. It addresses the audience (us) reading it in such an elegant and interesting fashion. I look forward to seeing what other posts you come up with, and advice you have to offer.

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