La Bella Vita

Andrews University has their motto that can be found plastered on almost any surface around campus. "Seek. Affirm. Change." As a freshman, sophomore, and junior this phrase was only wasted space in my mind. Now that I'm a Senior, it seems like each part of my experience here needs closure. This saying falls naturally into that same category. Seek. I sought. I sought out four different majors in college. I sought out how it was I wanted to help people. How? By traveling the world and visiting several different countires trying to find how I wanted to fit in during the time that God has given me on this circular globe. Affirm. Affirming what I've discovered? Okay, I guess that makes sense. I have to affirm my beliefs, my efforts, my goals. This makes achieving them a bit more real, a bit less surface. I can do that. Change. Whoa. I like change, it's fun. It keeps you on your toes, you get less bored. However, is there really something in this world of intellec...

Things have changed, drastically. I was gone for almost 6 months and I came back to realize that not only I had changed, but so had the group of people that previously surrounded me. Is it weird to say that I feel like we've all grown up a little bit? We've all seen life in a different way and it seems to beat to a new drum. We have all brought in new perspectives. Friends returned from Europe, Africa, Islands, etc., and we are all back together to take another year of college by the reigns. It feels right. I hadn't realized how unhappy I was until about a week before I left my job in California. I don't know how it happened, but it seemed to get the best of me. I suppose living on a mountain, not really having a 'Sabbath,' no beach for all of Spring/Summer, and other things may have had an impact. But the reality is I missed my home. I missed my freedom. I don't know that I missed 'Michigan,' but I missed going on random adventures with my f...