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This past weekend was my first weekend of fall break. It was also probably the best weekend of my freshman year. Friday night I flew out of Portland to visit beautiful friends in Santa Barbara. I spent Saturday afternoon with Ashley, and Saturday evening with Dani, surprising Stass, and driving to UCLA to visit my best friend since kindergarten. We went out Saturday night and spent Sunday together. Sunday night we drove back to SB and, again, I visited with Ashley and her hysterical housemates.

Leaving Portland on Friday, I was utterly exhausted from schoolwork, keeping up with friends, and keeping track of what I am doing with my life. I’ve realized how ridiculously easy it is to get off track and lose sight of all that you’re working towards. More so nowadays in college, living independently, versus living at home, having parents keeping track of life for you. I am so fortunate and grateful to have been able to reunite with such beautiful friends. This single weekend of seeing my loves, being able to express our love in person, and being able to be a part their new lives, certain that they are good and well is all that I needed to recuperate. I feel grounded again, more alive than my first day of school, more motivated to be true to myself when I venture back to Oregon. Right now, I have everything that I need to live a free life, doing work, succeeding mentally, emotionally, physically, and most of all spiritually.

I have a full week of break ahead of me. Finally, I get to fly home to my warm-hearted puppies, my gracious parents, my perfect full size bed, home cooked meals, television all day, and meetings with various enlightened minds from my sangha! Never in my life have I been this appreciative of everything in its full essence. Thanks to everyone who has taken part or will be taking part in this rejuvenating, week long, first Fall Break of the next momentous four years!!!

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