A lifetime of decisions

All accumulate into one choice

Just finally an adult

Trying to decipher all the noise

College or hard labor

We stress out at night

Our grades need a savior

To graduate on time

Four years is a lifetime

Where we make close friends

But when the door closes behind us

This lifetime ends

Like a phoenix from the ashes

We are reborn into something new

The person we have sculpted

Rises up as the truth

So many pathways open

Some narrow, some straight, some scary

We may stick to what we know

And never change until we’re buried

There is a freedom of choice

We have never experienced like this

We all try to find our voice

Amidst our early life crisis

Will we make the world a better place?

Contribute our talents towards the betterment of the world

Will we hide away and be solitary?

Or blend in the crowd like a flick of a paintbrush and a swirl?

Will we learn new tricks, make new friends?

Explore to places far and wide?

Or stick to what we know, stay familiar

And the same old town we will reside

What experience is bad experience?

What mistakes shall we make on our journey?

What will we do to preoccupy ourselves?

While the world keeps turning

Four years, one thousand four hundred sixteen days

They have blown past like a solitary hour

But these next few years, carpe diem

Let’s seize the moment, make it ours

Through this four years

One thing I know for certain

Nothing is promised, there may be no tomorrow

Just be happy with your life when they close the curtains