Currently Living in the Best Years of My Life

This past week my suite at school had the joy of hosting Mrs. Jubb (my roommate's mom).  Because Angela had surgery on her torn labrum Mrs. Jubb came to stay with us to help nurse sweet Angela back to health. Besides having a loving mother figure in the suite for a few days, something we aren't normally used to in a college dorm, Mrs.Jubb is a great talker and a great listener! We can always count on her to keep the conversation going with some great words of wisdom. It is a true skill!

A normal night for suite107 consists of some late night girl-talk. Almost nightly when we are all finished with our homework, relaxed for a little while, and right before we get ready for bed us girls get together, chat about our day, complain about the male gender, our classes, and think about the great things that tomorrow will bring! There is always a guarantee of laughing until our stomach hurts, giving each other the best advice about life, and occasionally we even give each other manicures if we had a realllll bad day. (some real girly stuff, of course!) One time this past week when we were having our nightly chat Mrs. Jubb peeked her head in the door, said "You know, you girls are in the best years of your life!", and then walked out into the other room. While it was only a few words of great wisdom, it got me thinking...

We really ARE in the best years of our lives! When will we ever get the chance to live with our best friends, have all day to attend 3-one hour classes, and get to act as irresponsible as we want and just be referred to as acting like a "college student"?! While our number one priority is getting an education (don't worry mom!) our number two priority is making memories that will last forever! As I am finishing up my second year as a college student I have already made a million memories and am more than excited for the next two years of "the best years of my life" to make a million more!

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever" 

--Gandhi

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

--Kahlil Gibran