Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @ 10:08 PM

Wanderlust is instilled within everyone. We are all wistful in getting "away", and moving from our dull, solidified routine that we are expected to live. A select few enjoy their current lives, most dread their days and seek change of environment to expand their success. I feel as if college is most of our escape routes. We deal with the miserable four years of high school for the great award that awaits us at the end: freedom and relief. Freedom from the binding school work, the labels that stuck with you throughout the years of high school, and the people you were forced to face during the extensive five weekdays. For some, graduation is an entrance to the 'actual' part of their lives, and the most significant. High school is merely an illusion, it is not even close to reflecting reality. The real world has much more to offer and depending how you look at it, harsh. But it is those harsh obstacles that mold us into the people we need to be to survive and reach our greatest aspirations. To move away from something so familiar is a scary thing.. but only through those changes will we be able grow and obtain things much greater than what we held on to.