This week the CAO has opened up again. For those who didn't have, nor won't have, the need to open up your application and change things around, I envy you. You should all consider yourselves very fortunate. As for the indecisive people like myself, I feel your pain. I am incapable of ordering food at a restaurant without changing my mind ten times, so as you can imagine, the CAO is causing me a lot of hardship! Quite a few people have said it isn't that much of a big deal; but is that really the truth? In my opinion, it is probably the single most important decision I have had to make s far in my eighteen years. And it is certainly not an easy one!
To me, CAO means college. Leaving school, leaving some friends, and moving away from home. Come September, most of us will no longer have the shelter of the post primary school environment. We won't have teachers reminding us when essays are due, or about upcoming tests. It will be time to stand, one hundred percent, on your own two feet. Is this a good thing? Or a bad thing? Personally, I find it a little bit daunting, but on the other hand, it's very exciting. A new pace, new faces, and a new experience overall. Of course it will be ever so slightly scary at first, like everything, but it can only get better! If I am being completely honest, the thing that worries me most is my disastrous culinary skills, meaning I have the ability to burn water! That takes real talent.
As our last few weeks approach, it is becoming evident that things are slowly changing. There comes a time when things have to change, no doubt. This is the time it has to happen for us. Are we ready? In some ways, possibly. In others, maybe not. Who knows what will be thrown at us in the future, but I think no matter what it is, we are all prepared, in our own way, to get through it. Focus on building the new, not on fighting the old.
"Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you re, for what you could become."
A.M