Slow It Down

required weeknight listening: Slow it down by the Lumineers

They say senior year will fly by. They say you won't know what hit you come graduation day. They say you should make the most of every minute. They say live for the moment, but think about your future, you are after all about to be an adult. "where are you going to college? what are you going to major in? what do you want to do with your life?," they ask me. None have a simple answer, but I formulate some sort of "life-plan" for them to be satisfied with. Most nights, I sit and think about how crazy all of this is. How this year can feel so painfully dull and slow, and yet I can see my childhood passing right by me. It's strange to be amidst these ever-changing times. We're growing up and there isn't much you can do to stop that. In a matter of months, I will be graduating. And in a year's time, I'll be in college. Friends will go their separate ways. we will be strung all about the country and Im sure in the coming years we will pass each other on foreign soil. The chapters of my life are quickly writing themselves and I have found little time to catch my breath. but tonight. tonight I ask that everything just slow down. That the future not get ahead of itself. and that the school year won't rush me. and my past not bother me either. tonight I will sit in the here and now. and I will find contentment in God and in his plans for my future. and for all the times I want my life to hurry up and start, I pray God will stop me in my tracks and remind me to breathe easy and Slow It Down.

here's to senior year, may it go by slower than they say.

Emily Ann