One Day...

...I would like to have lemon trees and avocado trees in my backyard...A house with walls painted different colors...Good kitchen appliances...

A lot of my friends wished they never graduated because they miss the college lifestyle, but not the class part. Strangely enough, I'm the opposite. I don't mind the going to class part, or even doing most of the reading (except when 30 pages of reading takes me all day). But I almost feel like I'm ready to be settled (before you go making assumptions, this does not mean that I want to get married). I'm thankful for what I have but I'm just ready for some permanence.

In property, we learned about ownership and what that means to people. I guess when you're a student, not owning much can contribute to the feeling of not owning your own life. You may have your limited belongings- your clothes, books, beloved laptops, iPod, and of course your debt but almost everything else in your life seems a little transitory. Who knows where you'll be living in three years, or even one year. I guess that's why we rent, don't paint our walls, and buy disposable furniture from Ikea and Craigslist.

I suppose this is why I went to law school straight out of undergrad, and I still maintain that I made the right decision for myself. To reach this notion of stability sooner. In the meantime, I use Sundays as my day to pretend that I live a non-student life. Today I slept in, read the news, walked to church, bought some household things at the hardware store, got some coffee at Whole Foods, and picked out a pair of new glasses at an optomotrist offce. It's amazing how doing some errands and seeing people of different ages can be a nice break from your routine of reading.