Sometimes you just have to stop everything you're doing and go to bed early. Forget the studying. Forget the papers you have to write. Forget the past, the present, and the future. Just leave it for tomorrow and curl up in bed and go to sleep. And everything is better in the morning. That's what I did last night, and it was amazing. I went to bed stressed, frazzled, near a nervous breakdown (I'm not kidding, I was seriously considering going over the the counseling center here on campus). It was that bad. So I just went to bed, tried to relax. I woke up this morning at 8, and I got some work done before my first class. I got done this morning what I had wanted to get done. I went to my class. I went to lunch, printed off an article for a presentation on Thursday. I got done this afternoon with everything that I wanted to, and I still had time for ECM and a saxaphone concert which was absolutely beautiful I migt add.
See, that's the thing, I was relaxed. I was running towards a brick wall at breakneck speed. I had already hit that the night before, and now I'm beyond it. Sure, I'm still stressed about exams and classes and moving-out. But I'll take it all in stride. I have everything I need in life to be a happy person right now. I have an amazingly supportive family. I have wonderfully kind friends. I'm surrounded by wonderful people who really truly care about me. I'm in awe. How did I happen to get such a wonderful life? What have I done to deserve to be so blessed? Sometimes I feel too selfish. I feel like I'm trying to make everything be about me, but it shouldn't be that way. I want to make others happy before myself. That's who I want to be. I want to think of others emotional and physical well-being before mine. And just by writing this, I'm proving that that is easier said than done so I'm stopping on that tangent right now.
The other thing that gets me is the lack of publicity for the musicians here at UNC. I'm not talking about rock bands or the a cappella groups on campus. I'm talking about the percussion and wind ensembles, the symphony and jazz bands, the saxaphone, piano, and voice recitals. There are so many different performances that go on in Hill Hall and Person Hall, and every last one of them is amazing. Yet, so many of them get little, if any, publicity. These people spend too much time outside of classes preparing for perfomances that go unnoticed. For all of us that aren't in the music program, look up the performances on the music website:
http://music.unc.edu/
and go to one of the performances. Experience the work of our peers. It is amazing, wonderful, exciting. It's indescribable how great these performances are. Really, take the time to go to one of them. You won't regret it.
See, that's the thing, I was relaxed. I was running towards a brick wall at breakneck speed. I had already hit that the night before, and now I'm beyond it. Sure, I'm still stressed about exams and classes and moving-out. But I'll take it all in stride. I have everything I need in life to be a happy person right now. I have an amazingly supportive family. I have wonderfully kind friends. I'm surrounded by wonderful people who really truly care about me. I'm in awe. How did I happen to get such a wonderful life? What have I done to deserve to be so blessed? Sometimes I feel too selfish. I feel like I'm trying to make everything be about me, but it shouldn't be that way. I want to make others happy before myself. That's who I want to be. I want to think of others emotional and physical well-being before mine. And just by writing this, I'm proving that that is easier said than done so I'm stopping on that tangent right now.
The other thing that gets me is the lack of publicity for the musicians here at UNC. I'm not talking about rock bands or the a cappella groups on campus. I'm talking about the percussion and wind ensembles, the symphony and jazz bands, the saxaphone, piano, and voice recitals. There are so many different performances that go on in Hill Hall and Person Hall, and every last one of them is amazing. Yet, so many of them get little, if any, publicity. These people spend too much time outside of classes preparing for perfomances that go unnoticed. For all of us that aren't in the music program, look up the performances on the music website:
http://music.unc.edu/
and go to one of the performances. Experience the work of our peers. It is amazing, wonderful, exciting. It's indescribable how great these performances are. Really, take the time to go to one of them. You won't regret it.
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