Checking items of the ol' master list, cleansing breaths, dutifully compartmentalizing, and above all, trying not to spawn a counter productive headache with all of the above. Setting out on a voyage of any kind can be as stressful as moving minus the actual permanent relocation. The attention to detail is just as important. Slighting your necessities slightly and you could be boned for days, weeks, months even. Then hopefully amidst it all, you remember why you're doing it all, and that sharp thrill of anticipatory excitement surges through your midsection, a smile brightening your furrowed face. And again, you're ready to do what's gotta be done. I'm headed to New York for the first time on Saturday, at long last.
Ironically, people have asked if I'm from NYC off and on since I've lived in California. I'm not sure what they are basing it off of (no bullshit take of life, kindness to those in peril?), but I'm very excited to put two and two together. It's more than that though...my amazing, beautiful, younger brother is graduating from NYU with Honors, and I am so very proud of him. He himself is on the crest of a voyage into "adulthood" (which he'll find isn't really a hood, more like a mock turtleneck), and I can't imagine a better send off than having a gathering of loved ones from various locations around the U S of A. Full circle and all that.
Maybe that 's where half the anxiety comes from. I know it will be a momentous occasion, so I better get my shit straight. I can't be casual when so much is at stake. If I'd chillax a little, and think of it as the adventure it will undoubtedly be, an awakening to new culture, climate and life experience, the odds and ends would fall into place with less flustering. I'm working on it.
Regardless, just being there to witness one of my favorite people getting acknowledged for his excellence-it can't happen enough-will be worth all the bothersome befuddlement. Cheers to you, Cooper. Your life is a tribute to how unique and deserving you really are. You worked your ass off, and I love you all the more for it. Tear grown-upness a new one, or rather continue to do so. I can't wait to stand at the edge of the next big event with you. I won't stress about the depth of the deep, just the awesomeness of our leaps.
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Lola Hey!!! I think your last two sentences sum up how I felt about the whole NYU graduation in NYC! And, also, so aptly puts how I've felt about the leeps of all four of you chid-wins! Thanks for focalizing it for me, and all of us who are in love and so proud of our families!!!!
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