It was never my dream to graduate.
I don’t know. Did other people imagine themselves in a cap and gown and feel so proud just picturing that achievement? Because I sure didn’t. I’ve had those fantasies about being in operas, about getting married, about traveling. But graduation was never my goal, and going to college was never my dream.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t exactly regret going to college. I wound up learning a lot along the way and having some incredible opportunities. I still think that I might have been able to learn just as much and experience as many incredible things if I had not gone to college…but who knows. I met Tristan, and now I can’t imagine my life without him. I seriously doubt that I would have met him if I hadn’t coincidentally been going to school here at the same time as he was.
But I wonder what else might have happened along the way if I hadn’t been working towards a goal that wasn’t my own.