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<p>I finished a book and television show today, things I haven't done in a long while. The TV series was a 7 season, 22 episodes per season show. It took seven months to complete. The book took me four days of off and on reading. At the end, I typically have a hard time coming back to reality. That thing that kept you on a schedule, gave you a reason to get through the next thing is gone. And two at once in my case. The show didn't evoke this feeling quite as strongly as some others in the past, but it's catching up to me as I write this. I feel like just sitting at the couch. Unmoved. Undisturbed. Grasping at bits of things that I remember. "But what happens next?" Complete nonsense, I know. It passes by the next day or after moving on to something else genuinely interesting. Though I also ran into this phrase at the end, "school is making me stupider."</p>
<p>I don't thing I'm stupider, but I've realised school is a bit of a paradox. I've come to discover my purpose, but when I finally have my vision figured out, and learn this or that, I'm committed to the existing curriculum, whether it helps or hurts to continue. In my case, I'm ready to move on. I want to spend my next year getting things together around my house, selling things, and starting a business selling aftermarket parts for motorcycles/mopeds/cars and spread the right-to-repair gospel while having a job digital modeling and designing for another company to get off my feet and pay off loans.</p>
<p>I'm also fully reminded how little time is left in they school year. I'll still be able to talk to my friends, but there's always the, "what if I had done X instead" running through my head about various points over the last five years. It's worked out pretty well though, so I can't really complain. My impossible desire to do everything has to come out to have its say sometimes.</p>
<p>In times like these, I need to remember to stick to the plan and finish strong. There's no sense in fumbling now, if for nothing else than the sense of pride that comes along with the end-of-semester events.</p>
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