In Class

I'm sitting in my Investment Management class right now. I should probably be listening to what my professor is saying, but I think I'll just teach myself this stuff later on. This is a part of me trying to "live in the moment."

After last week finished up I really realized how much I'm stressing about unimportant things. I let myself get sick and worried about one single test grade. How stupid is that? Yeah, tests are important to a degree, but ten years from now I'm not going to remember these grades. And if I keep up this constant worrying and stressing I won't have anything else to remember about college.

These four years are supposed to be, and for the most part have been, the best four years of my life. While I wasn't always happy at Fordham, I never worried about grades like I have this semester. This semester I've let grades control my life and let the important things get away from me.

Thankfully I had this weekend to put things back in perspective. A double date on Friday night with Ally, Pap, and Joyce was a good place to start. Pap and Joyce have an unsurpassed ability to relax me. I could sit at dinner with them for hours and just listen to the stories from their travels. The stories might repeat, but each time they're told they come with the same excitement as the original did. Nights like the one I had Friday are the ones I'll miss most when I've grown up.

Saturday was another successful, lazy day. I went home for a few hours to hang out with my family, and the dysfunction was the same as when I left. A dinner at Ya-Fei is damn near impossible to pass up...especially if mom is paying.

I guess the common denominator this weekend was family. Family is, has been, and always will be one of the biggest contributors to my overall happiness.

As this semester winds down I find myself trying to make up for lost time. And even though it's impossible to get time back, I can move forward focusing on the really important things like friends and family.

Jared, Dave, and I all watched Game of Thrones for a few hours last night and I was reminded again how much I love my best friends. I've known those two guys since I was a little kid and we still find new things to make us laugh every single day. I'm lucky to have friends like them. I guess you could call them lifers because they'll be my friends for life. I've been very fortunate to know such hardworking, humorous, caring guys, and I can't wait until we get to graduate from the same university and set forth on our own individual journeys. I know they'll be successful in whatever they decide to do, wherever they end up.

I don't want to get ahead of myself, though. We still have a year and a half left in 339 Oakland Avenue to make some unforgettable memories and at the very least watch some Game of Thrones.

Hopefully this post was a nice little follow up to the last. I hope everyone reading this is in good health and good spirits.

NP: Starry Eyed- Ellie (at Semetti's request)