It’s nearly the end of the school year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Graduation is upon us – Oprah is coming – and it seems very clear to me that these last two months are going to fly by. I’ve spent this last semester out of class, job hunting and networking relentlessly, working and saving money, and training for a marathon. And it’s seemed endless. I have felt hopeless and directionless countless times, second-guessed myself and then second-guessed myself again, broke down reasonably and unreasonably. The bottom line: the future is terrifying, and sorting life out, a mess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But with each day that passes, I remind myself how lucky I really am. Yes, I’m stressed about my future job, my future home, saying goodbye to friends. Yet all along, I have had the most lovely, supportive, hilarious housemates a girl could ask for. I have been surrounded by people who truly care about me and are willing to take me at my best and<\/em> worst. And that’s where friends really count. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Last night, four of the five of us went to a free screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I cannot remember the last time I laughed so hard nor felt so much love and joy from companionship. Every scene had a moment that reminded us of one of another, every gag had us squeezing each other’s shoulders. I felt so grateful, so happy, so…at peace, for the first time in a long time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The people I live with were not all my best friends to begin with. In fact, there are certainly things we don’t know about each other still. But there’s a common understanding in our house that we all deal with hard sh*t from time to time, and that’s OK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One of my good friends recently told me, “I love how much your house checks in on each other and takes care of each other. It’s so sweet.” It is. IT IS<\/em> SWEET, DAMN IT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More than sweet, it’s been something I can rely on in all of the periods of distress I have faced this senior year. At the end of the day, I know I can sob, rant, or sulk in front of my housemates, and they will let me do so, listening the whole way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have lost important relationships throughout college, most notably this year. But I have a strong feeling that the relationships I have made with my housemates will last. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That saying, “If you can’t take me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best”? My housemates have seen me at both my best and worst, and they love me just the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Can you say that of your friends? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s nearly the end of the school year. Graduation is upon us – Oprah is coming – and it seems very clear to me that these last two months are going to fly by. I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excrcl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}