Sometimes you can hear everyone give the same advice, blow them off only to realize later they were right. As I see all the new freshmen making new memories, new friends and whole new series of firsts, I can't help but be a little jealous and just hope they don't make the mistakes I did. I think of my first semester of college, how I secluded myself in my dorm room with headphones on trying to cling on the past, trying to overcome a huge emotional set back from an event weeks before I went off to college and just overall afraid to put myself into situations I still had some emotional scars from trying before. If I knew then what I learned just a semester later and realized at an even deeper level as the years have gone by, perhaps I would be on a different path than I ended up on. Perhaps I would have taken the perfect opportunity to break out of my comfort zone (after all, everyone's doing it their first semester), learn that the past doesn't always repeat itself and that I know I will make it through, I wouldn't have as many regrets as I have accumulated.
Don't get me wrong, the path I ended up on has given me some people who I wouldn't be who I am without them, I did break my comfort zone in due time and while there are still moments I wish I had done something different than what I did, I can't say for sure I would be where I am today, who I am today if I had done things differently.
granted, I definitely wish I did my homework without procrastination and learned to back up stuff in time.
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