Time
The best thing about being done with nursing school and counting down the days to graduation, is that I now have TIME. Well, hello there, old friend! Almost didn’t recognize you… For example, as I type this, I am sitting beside my brother, pretending to watch The Town with him. Do I really want to watch The Town? Not really, but I am enjoying the quality time with him that it affords.
College teaches you very quickly the necessity of prioritizing the short twenty-four hours a day brings. I think that’s an essential life skill, and I KNOW it is imperative as a nurse. But it can also cause you to measure time in relation to when a paper or assignment is due, when a certain godforsaken class (ahem, Adult Health 152 or microbiology ughhh!) will be over. You forget to be thankful for the times you come home to clean clothes and room because your mother loves you, the times your sister packed a lunch for the next day for you because you came home from clinical exhausted and fell asleep as soon as you sat down, the time classmate picked you up a latte before class, or when your class got a two hour delay due to ice and you got to get an extra hour of sleep. You forget to be grateful for these moments.
So this holiday season, in addition to SO many blessings, I am grateful for the time I now have. Time to watch old Rogers and Hammerstein musicals with my Grams. Time to take a leisurely walk and enjoy the day. Time to play board games with my family. Time to sit and just BE. Truly, the ability to just hang out right now with my baby brother is the bee’s knees! I hope I’m ever thankful for the small blessings and moments in life, not just the big ones. Peace, peeps!
