Making the P.G.L. Count

I have officially been a college graduate for eight whole days now. This week was something of an adventure. My post-grad job didn't work out so I am back to being unemployed and overjoyed. I'm "thriving" as my best friend, Nicole, would say. Okay that was sarcasm, but honestly I am surprisingly upbeat. I feel like there is another opportunity just waiting for me around the corner, and I cannot wait to find out what it is. I am going to keep looking until I find it, because honestly, I am a very persistent and hardworking person. I know that something is bound to come up, and that it will be a great opportunity when it does.

On an unrelated note, ten days from now I am going on vacation to Austin, Texas with my sister, and I could not be more excited. However, with my last semester of college being so hectic, I hardly had any chance to prepare for vacation. I rarely worked out. I ate terribly. I didn't go shopping for new summer clothes. My room is a mess. So I decided to do all of this preparation in the 10 days before I leave for vacation, setting aside time each day to get ready.

Currently on day two, so far I have gotten rid of three bags of clothes that I haven't worn in a year. I hope to have everything organized in the next week. I looked through all my clothes that I want to take on vacation, and packed some of them into my suitcase. I've stopped eating bread, which will hopefully make me feel more alert and energized while I walk around, exploring Austin, and maybe keep me from looking bloated in the pictures. Lastly, I have already started applying for jobs. Obviously these are just little things, and they won't change my whole life around in an instant, but the point is to keep going a little farther and to do a little more each day. Eventually, the progress adds up. I'll let you know how all of this goes next week.

Since my senior year of college started, people have been telling me to "make it count" "enjoy every minute of it". And while that's a sweet sentiment, frankly the idea of enjoying every minute of anything is overwhelming. College is too long and too difficult to enjoy every minute. Pretty much anything is, but thinking that was really aggravates my quarter life crisis, so I set some goals for myself. My overall goal is not to be one of those people who stays the same way that they were in college, and never tries to make positive changes in their life. I know I have to keep actively working hard to improve myself and my life, and I want to do that by getting rid of old things, and moving onto new ones. Everyone has a different definition of P.G.L., and mine is to keep moving forward, and not getting stuck living in my past.