Personal Blog: Gaining my Independence

Without even realizing it, we all depend on a lot of things while we are living with our parents in high school. Some examples may be our parents doing our laundry for us when we are busy at work, depending on our class schedule to tell us what to do for eight hours, coming home to home-cooked meals after school so that we have something to eat for dinner, etc. Going to college kind of forces you to be independent right away, as what you will do every day depends completely on you and your choices. 

I remember my second or third week at my college my friends invited me to go to Chicago with them over the weekend. After thinking about it I realized I can just go wherever and do whatever I want now that I am not living with my parents (responsibly of course). And so my friends and I got train tickets and went to Chicago, and it was such a fun experience especially because I just met all of them and we all just randomly decided to go
Me at Millenium Park

I'm not saying that making spontaneous decisions is always a good thing to do with your friends, I am just making the point that the feeling of independence is freeing and exciting. You finally get to make your own choices on what you want to do every day, and it is not overwhelming once you get used to it.

My favorite part of being independent and living on my own is that I can manage my own time. Like I mentioned earlier, in high school, you follow your class schedule all day, and when you finally go home you can decide how you want to spend your night. In college, I have three classes maximum per day, and they are all pretty short compared to eight high school classes a day. I get to fill up the rest of the time that I have every day with whatever I please, and it is a really nice feeling. Also, if I am having a bad day, I can lay in bed all day or in between classes and I can make that choice myself without being judged or ridiculed. 

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