Laura the Explorer: A New Year a New Me
Articles / News
Date: December 12, 2007  

Laura Newell, Arts Editor
 
These last few weeks of school are always hard on students; it seems that everywhere I go on campus students are wide eyed and swinging from mood to mood.  With finals ending and a new semester beginning students are trying to look past their unfinished classes into the new semester that will come all too soon.

As I worked on completing my many portfolios and finishing those last minute essays, I had begun wondering if my past problems from this semester would end once those portfolios were turned in or if all my issues and stresses would just follow me into the spring semester.

Still delaying my last minute work sitting in front of me, my mind ventured into a question about past stresses and future outlooks.  And I wondered; can we ever get a fresh start in life?

Days later I spent a night with Deb and Sue in a cramped Jetta on a comedy filled road trip discussing the new guys, new jobs and new classes we had going on in our lives.  I listened to how new excitements and new issues came from each new venture. 

While new classes, for example, were exciting and eliminated this semester’s stresses, worries of new classes and life beyond graduation arrived.  It seemed that while new finds accomplished past goals and new adventures, they revealed future resentment and concern for us all.

Still sitting at my computer, I thought to myself, people will always look to their past for what will come into their future because that’s how we learn.  But is our past always the best teacher?

Trying to get myself a stress-free fresh start for the upcoming holiday season, I scheduled a facial for myself during yet another homework break.  Being my first facial, I had only heard rumors of what will come of it.  But I felt that attempting to eliminate the unwanted oils, dead skin and red blemishes and providing a softer, cleaner and smoother face was a good start to this fresh new semester of mine. 

Who really knows what will come of our futures?  All I know is that right now, I want to try and accomplish all my goals and stay with those I love.  While this new semester will bring new ventures into my life, I don’t know if a fresh start will come of it.

I guess all we can do is try to bring our future goals and past accomplishments into a middle ground for our current life, right?