I’m 18. Now what?
“How did you approach life?” and I responded:
It came at me like a flood; the lights were on but I was dim.
18 and legal, a dolphin/baby eagle – it was fight: flight or swim.
LIFE.
I surveyed my surroundings and saw that others were living life just fine.
This thing about “being grown” was nothing more than a state of mind.
Right? You only live once, and there’s no side bar or demo.
How did everyone know what they knew? I thought I’d missed the memo.
I was an honor student, a nerd and I have to admit I hardly tried.
I had planned to entrepreneur and forfeit college – but moms said, “that’s a lie.”
She enrolled me into college, packed my things and dropped me off.
18 was such a new thing to me, the world was huge and I was lost.
Mind…
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