"The Best Times of Your Life"

I kind of want to address this whole idea that the most fun you will ever have in your entire life will be in college - why?? I don't know who's saying this but I feel it is akin to people hearkening back to their high school days (either in college or after - yikes). What's the most fun - paying to do hard work, having less control over the people you live with/around, not making money, doing homework. I mean, of course there are times that you will remember forever and you make some of the best friends of your life, but how is that so different from after college?

I have already seen a noticeable improvement in the way that I get to live my life now that school doesn't control it. First and foremost, I am making my own money from the work I do on a day to day basis. Work for the most part stays at the office, and if it did come home with me it wouldn't necessarily mean I would hang out with it all evening or all weekend. I enjoy being able to come home and focus on all of the things I want to do for me - work out, cook, watch some tv, catch up with friends and family.

Perhaps it's a mind over matter thing - if you believe it won't get any better after college, maybe it won't. But you have a lot of years after college and I'd hate to believe that you couldn't have fun somewhere in there. I think that the next few years will be extremely fun - I'm young, making money, and with free time to spare. That means I can go out with friends without having to worry about homework, spend money a bit more freely, and enjoy every second of it.

Work does have its drawbacks, of course. I'm trying to get used to my schedule so I'm tired a lot, but once I get the hang of that - watch out! ;)

I refuse to believe that life is somehow over because my fun is just getting warmed up.