So this morning I started putting my life back in order, which is a ritual for me as I enter the post-semester period. Only this time it's tinged with sadness, because I know that this is the very last time that I'll go through these motions.
My desk is in order, my checkbook balanced, my house cleaned. Yet I'm feeling an emptiness - a resonance of the void in my life that until this week was filled by school.
I'm sure that I'll get over it quickly, but even writing this feels like a sad thing to do. Blogging here has become such a regular part of life that closing it off feels like just one more box closed, one more door shut.
Change is always like that, I suppose.
I was a blogger before starting this blog, so it's not as though it was a new experience for me, but it was interesting to do it on assigned topics and see how a classroom full of people addressed the same subject that I did. As a writer, I really appreciated that experience.
Although it's campy to say, this year has been a journey and this class has played a large part of that. Rather than just taking another three credits, we've really worked together and become friends, which is something that I'll always appreciate.
Blue skies to all of you --
Comments (7)
Blue skies to you too! =] Yes, change and moving on is quite sad. But we all go through it, and there isn't much we can do about it. The best we can do is enjoy something while it lasts and then when it passes, leave it in our memory, so we can still keep it alive. But this isn't the end of the blogs...I think. The professor said that we will be able to post on them even after the semester is over. I'm not sure for how long, but I guess we'll find out soon enough. Well, it was nice reading your entries!
Posted by Lady Hira | May 24, 2007 1:05 PM
Posted on May 24, 2007 13:05
I blog outside of this but it's definitely been an experience having to do it as an assignment. It's shown me how differently we all think, and yet at some intrinsic level, we're all alike. The closing of the blogs feels kind of permanent even though I know they'll still be active for a while.
Anyway, I've enjoyed reading your entries and blue skies to you as well!
Posted by AK | May 24, 2007 11:14 PM
Posted on May 24, 2007 23:14
I agree that it was cool to see the approach to dreams taken by various people.
I'm envious that your house is already cleaned and checkbook balanced. Blue skies to you too!
Posted by Sonomas | May 25, 2007 12:08 PM
Posted on May 25, 2007 12:08
Very poetic, well said.
You have given a lot, and you take away a lot from this seminar class. We had a great teacher and great classmates, who were human, just like us.
Posted by Mind's Torque Wrench | May 25, 2007 12:55 PM
Posted on May 25, 2007 12:55
Yeah, our seminar's journey has come to an end. But why don't you continue posting your dreams on your other blog?
I'd love to read it!
Sweet dreams. . .
Posted by Lily Briscoe | May 25, 2007 8:55 PM
Posted on May 25, 2007 20:55
I agree, I always get sad after things ending...it lasts for about a day or a two, and then I'm back up and running lol
I am going to miss everyone here though, because we have all made really good friends and it will be sad not to go to this class every week...
Anyway, yea I would love to continue this blog...I think it would be really fun to see us like ten years from now still trying to figure out our dreams lol
If everyone will do it (I don't want to be alone reflecting on my dreams only lol) I will also!! =)
Posted by Maria - True Romance | May 25, 2007 9:15 PM
Posted on May 25, 2007 21:15
Don't worry, I'll come over and mess up your desk, misorganize your checkbook, and dirty your house.
Posted by John A. Dreams | May 26, 2007 4:43 AM
Posted on May 26, 2007 04:43