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EMILY: I got the, um, PowerPoint ... remember the, like, keys to happiness from all the different cultures?
MARISSA: Mmhmm.
EMILY: You might ... yeah. Well, because I'm taking notes for that class, she emailed me
all the PowerPoints so now I have all of the specific explanations.
I'm going to be the happiest person ever.
Just gotta ... listen to their advice, you know?
MARISSA: Yeah. Listen real good.
EMILY: Mmhmm.
MARISSA: I don't even ... I don't even know what ...
I kind of hate being a senior.
EMILY: Why?
MARISSA: I don't ... maybe that, maybe that's extreme, but ... I don't want to go yet. You know?
EMILY: Yeah.
MARISSA: I spent my whole life looking forward to this, being done with school, but now it's
really, really close and I can't stop it getting closer and closer. Like, even if I didn't
do any work at all, or just didn't get anything done or didn't commit to anything, it's like
every night I go to sleep and wake up and we're just another day closer to graduation
... and being kicked out into the world. It's like ... yeah, just getting closer and closer
to this big unknown, like ... just gonna step off a cliff that I can't stop walking toward.
Except, what I never realized is that I'm stepping off this cliff into, like, a whole
different world that's way much huger than the cliff I was just on. Like, I step off
and it's gone and it turns out that was just a tiny, tiny fraction and there's still way
more of life to figure out.
And ... I don't know. I just can't help but wonder if, like, maybe it'll just be like
high school all over again, or even college for that matter, and taking years to feel,
like, more comfortable and settled and connected, and then they kick you out and push you into
a different place again.
EMILY: Yeah, that's true. It's really, like ... the unknownness is super scary, but that's
also exciting. And it's also ... I mean, it doesn't have to be one year before you move again,
or four years or 10 years. I don't know ... it's kind of exciting.
MARISSA: Yeah, I guess ... maybe life after college doesn't run in, you know, 10-week
or four-year cycles. I mean, maybe ... maybe, I'll take a couple years. It'll take a couple
years to find, you know, security and stability, but, you know, maybe after you find those
things you can stay there.
EMILY: Mmhmm.
MARISSA: Maybe there won't be a cliff that you're forced to step off blindly every four years.
Or maybe ... maybe, life's just stepping off all the time,
and realizing that you have to step off,
so why not run and jump?
EMILY: Yeah, man.
MARISSA: Yeah.