Doing the Best I Could Do, Where I Am, With What I Have

I am so terrifically grateful that I graduated early. It's as if my time until September is my "gap year." Both as an intern and a weekend sandwich artist at Subway, I've been deliberately surrounding myself with new challenges and new people in new environments.

Just yesterday, I visited the bank to enable online banking service. Before registering, I had to fill out an A4 sized form with about.. 10 fill in the blank questions and 15 checkboxes that I had to either check or leave unchecked. It felt a little weird.. organizing the necessary documents myself. The overwhelming number of choices available to me, now transitioning into an adult, was unfamiliarly new, but definitely delightful.

Why I enabled online banking service? I love jazz. But the realm of dance is strikingly new to me. So with a portion of my February salary from Subway, I enrolled in a swing dance class. (Hahaha I know! It's definitely going to be a lot of fun.) Yesterday was the day I needed to wire the class fee. The self-esteem that I felt in funding my own learning experience through my work can never be described:)

First class is March 15th--and I honestly can't wait (I wish the clock would tick faster)! How fun will it be, with new people from all walks of life? I know for certain that the ages of my classmates range from late teens to early thirties. Their occupations? A whole variety!
How will we connect? What new insights (about the society, humanity, or anything from their experiences/backgrounds) would I gain? How will I grow to be a different (better) person now that they walked into my life? Oh--and of course, what new aspects about me will I discover via swing dance?

For the exact same reasons, I also joined an offline book club and an online Economist discussion meet. I've been encountering people whose ages span from early twenties to early fifties. Peeking inside and interacting with those people, whose majors range from law, musical arts, social welfare, real estate, religion, accounting, and fashion to computer science, has really expanded my worldview and my areas of interests. I feel so rich because I learned so much.

Evermore curious and daring, I want to explore all that this "gap" period has to offer me. I'm eager to see, feel, and do more.

On a random note, I now know how to make about 20 different sandwiches;) And that brings me bliss, because it's a sign that I learned the know-how to make it mine.

Life is good. Life is so good.