So the big time, huh? that's one of the topics we discussed yesterday and it got me thinking about what mine might be. I have so many plans for what is yet to come, but are they practical? Will they actually come to pass? I really have no idea. I imagine, with some persistence and hard work, I'll be able to accomplish things, but everything that I want? I hope so. I guess I won't actually know until I try.

I think that's what is going to be the hardest for me: trying. I know when I graduate that I'm going to have to move, and most likely that will be to California, but to leave everything I'm so accustomed to is really difficult. But I think it's going to be for the best and I'll enjoy it. It's time for a change.

Another thing we discussed in class was about marriage and how it has changed throughout the years. I was just thinking the other day about how when my grandmother was my age, she was married and pregnant and my mother, at this age, was engaged. That is something that is so completely surreal to me. I'm nowhere near ready to be married or to have kids and I don't plan to be for at least another ten years. My grandmother always bothers me and asks when she's going to get grandkids because she's old and going to die soon (I know, Debbie Downer), but I really can't tell her. I want to be able to experience life without the constraints of a family that I need to take care of and make something of myself before I settle down. I think that's the biggest difference between my generation and my grandparents' generation: the idea that we need to discover who we are before we create others. So whether my generation is doing it right, or the generations before did it right, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Hope this wasn't too crazy and jumbled! Just thought I'd share a little of what I was thinking about after class.