By Janessa Berlanga When I graduated from college, I didn’t do the responsible thing and get a job right away, nor did I have grad school lined up like some of peers had; instead, I simply packed up my dorm room and headed back home to Texas with my family. For the first time in my life, my future was completely open with no plans, no deadlines, no summer job, no school in the fall, no project to work on, and no friends to see (I had all but lost touch with my high school friends and my college friends were all spread throughout the States). Truth be told, it was crippling. The months that followed were some of the lowest and most empty times that I have ever endured. Here is a blog post that I wrote reflecting on that period, if you want more context. What I wanted to do now though, was talk about one of the things that helped me get through it- just one: a song that came along completely out of the blue (or I should say “out of the dark”) at just the right moment. Anna Nalick’s “Shine” was released in 2008, but the first time I ever heard it was one long, lonely night in the spring of 2012 when I was feeling completely unraveled. The lyrics really resonated with me, and that night served as a small turning point for my post-college life. The next day I quickly shared it to my facebook and tagged all my girlfriends from college because I wanted them to be encouraged as well, and now I’m sharing it with you lovely ladies. Before that song came along on that fateful night, I felt as though I just wasn’t measuring up to what I thought all my classmates were doing: going to grad school, working kick-ass jobs, getting married/engaged, and I thought that somehow made me defective and pathetic. When I listened to the empowering lyrics, I was reminded that I had my whole life ahead of me, and I still had time to shine. Shine away, my lovelies!
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