As a whole, this book’s main purpose has been to encourage readers to add value to their lives. Taking the effort to add a bit more intentionality to your day-to-day life than you necessarily would otherwise greatly improves a time as stressful as college. However, something I really want to hammer home for readers is that all these little things only matter if you can also value yourself at the end of the day.
What do I mean by this? Well, first of all, it’s important to take time for yourself so you have the energy to do these things to the fullest extent. Even if you’re doing a side hustle you enjoy, like writing food reviews, it won’t be much fun if you’re bogged down by sleepless nights. You have to take time for the things your physical body needs before you can take action for internal satisfaction.
However, another part of this is doing these things for the right reasons. Are you just working this fun position in line with your interests for the money? Or are you actually fulfilling some type of goal with this action? Not everything you do has to be weighed down with this much intention, but these are important things to think about when it comes to what you fill your time with.
Young adult life is a rough time to make decisions exclusively for yourself for a lot of reasons. You may feel pressured by familial desires over your own, or go towards what seems to be the most lucrative options for your bank account. These are also the years when people tend to be the most insecure about the way they present and who they are as a person, so you may not feel particularly confident in staying true to yourself. Working through these types of issues can be hard, but with therapy rapidly entering mainstream use and mental health becoming widely recognized as important, it’s easier than ever to move forward.
It can be really easy to let college steamroll its way through your day, completely overtaking your life. Combine that with schoolwork and extracurriculars, and it can seem physically impossible to have any type of intention besides survival. However, that makes it all the more important to form good habits early on. College is the first time most of us get the chance to form our own routines, so it’s good to develop strong intentions early on in your life, to carry that through the rest of adulthood. Hopefully, this book has given you the tools to get started on that journey!
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By Izzy Astuto
Izzy Astuto (he/they) is a writer currently majoring in Creative Writing at Emerson College, with a specific interest in screenwriting. His work has previously been published by Hearth and Coffin, Sage Cigarettes, and The Gorko Gazette, amongst others. He is currently a reader for journals such as PRISM international and Alien Magazine. You can find more of their work on their website, at https://izzyastuto.weebly.com/. Their Instagram is izzyastuto2.0 and Twitter is adivine_tragedy.
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