10:55 pm
Just flashed back to the time at the end of the summer when my favorite R.E.M. song came on the radio, at three-thirty five in the morning while I drove home from a great night, and I saw a shooting star, made a few unfulfilled wishes and wondered what my life would be like at what is now the present. How magical that was...
And now I think of how I changed and where I've been since then. I have this nagging tendency to set expectations, to envision life down the road and seek certainty. The song that came on, second from last track on my favorite album tonight, got me thinking of how much uncertainty I was really filled with. So now here I sit, at the end of my first semester of college, tired as hell and ready to give up, painting a dark contrast to that time at the end of the summer when the only things I worried about were out of my control. That moment was so perfect.
Some things remind me that better times are always there, always around the corner, ever-present, ever-possible. There's always reason to keep your head up in the face of failure or impending crisis. I was reminded of that tonight.
What a wonderful life.
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