Time.

If I was a good PA student, I would be studying right now.  But I decided after my best friend from home, Pete, texted me tonight, that it was about time that I create another (short) blog posting.  This all was spurred by me asking him how he is doing on this "fine last evening of June 2011."  The final evening of June 2011.  Wow.  Where in the world does time go?  I talk about this with my friends all the time... we're always all so busy caught up in school work and the little bit of social time that we can fit in in between.  And now that we're in the professional phase of our education, it's going even faster.  Yes, my mom (and probably every other adult in my life) always said "just you wait... it goes even faster with every year that passes"...  I totally get it.  And then I look at pictures from home... everyone is still at home, drinking and partying with the same old people they did in high school, and then there's the kids who are five years older than me and are drinking with kids still in high school.  I guess I just don't get it.  What is the point of drinking your life away?  Why not make the most of your life in this short time that we are here on earth, and do something meaningful?  Looking at those pictures makes me glad that I'm not at home anymore.  True, there's plenty of partying that goes on on the college campus as well, but at least I have my friends who are following their mission in life and are working to fulfill God's purpose for them.  Then there's the other people who I just don't know about... Do they even care, or are they just working on satisfying themselves?  I don't know... I guess that I just don't see the point in wasting the precious time that goes faster with every year, every month, every day that passes.  We may be young, but why not break the stereotype of the drunk, selfish, individual in their early 20s and make something of ourselves?  After all, if we don't grow up now, when will we?