Thoughts from a Sunday Drive.

Right before church today, I had to make a quick run back to the house because my mom had forgotten to pack speakers (long story). On my way back, I was feeling quite stressed and rushed. And of course, because I was in a hurry (and quite frustrated at this point), the person who was driving in front of me decided to take their sweet time. They were seriously going about 30 mph when the speed limit was 45. Despite being extremely frustrated and being tempted to, for lack of a better phrase, "not share the love of Jesus" with these people, I got to thinking - you can only go as fast as the person in front of you. Although this may seem like an obvious observation, think of it in the not-so-literal terms.

Whether it be a celebrity, family member, or friend, we all have people that we look up to or follow. However, when we decide to have role models that might not necessarily be the best influence on our lives, it's like we get put on hold. Although we should be going (a hypothetical) 45 miles per hour, we get stuck inching along because we're following a slow driver.

Honestly, I'm not sure if this makes much sense. However, I thought I'd share my thoughts :)

Much love,
Charis

Travels.

Yesterday on my 45 minute drive to uptown, a thought occurred to me. How much time do we spend travelling places? Yesterday alone, I spent over three hours in the car whilst driving. Honestly, this doesn't bother me much. In fact, I love to drive (except for the fact that gas prices are quickly approaching four bucks per gallon)! However, it doesn't change the fact that we spend a lot of time in cars, on planes, and on trains. What I really want to know is how many hours the average person spends traveling places in their lifetime. It must be a good chunk of time!

This realization got me thinking - how often do we look forward to our final destination instead of enjoying the journey? Personally, I've spent way too much time thinking and planning out this summer. In fact, I've been thinking about it almost constantly for the past two years. How many more thoughts could I have been thinking if it weren't for me dreaming about the future? It's really quite mind boggling (I've always wanted to say that).
With that said, I must say that the fact this summer is quickly approaching bothers me greatly. In a mere 65 days, I'll be moving out of my parents house... permanently. Sure, I'll come back and visit - I'm even visiting for a couple of weeks in July - but as far as actually living with my parents goes, I'll be gone. This is a tough notion to accept at the moment. These past eighteen years have seemed to go by quite slowly, but now that I'm looking back on them, they've flown by. It's funny how that works.
However, just because I'm moving out of my parents house permanently, does not mean that I'm moving away from Charlotte permanently. Actually, I've come to love this city very much (I know, it's a surprise to me as well). Yes, I know a lot will happen over the next four years, but my plan as of right now is to actually move back to the Queen City. This thought may be premature, but something tells me that I won't be gone for long.
Oh! Speaking of travels, I found out the other day that my parents are flying out my best friend from Texas as my graduation present! Not only am I going to be able to show her around this beautiful city for a week, but she's going to be able to drive back to Texas with me. This means...EPIC ROAD TRIP OF EPICNESS.
Ever since we were about ten, we talked and planned out our dream road trips. Although these usually included trips to New York and Italy (though I'm not sure how we planned on getting there by car), it's still exciting to think that we'll be spending 18 hours out on the open road by ourselves. Sadly, one selling point with my parents was that we couldn't go through the mountains. So instead, we're taking the Atlanta route.

(Charlotte, NC to Fort Worth, Texas)

(Naomi and I back in 2008)

Many music playlists are already being made for this epic road trip. If you would like to contribute to this list, it would be appreciated muchly!

Anywho, that's about all of the writing I have left in me tonight. Mom just informed me that I have a 15 page paper to write between now and next week. This would already be hard to complete, but I'm also going away for the weekend....so that takes away a large chunk of study time.

This shall be an adventure.
59 days until graduation.
Praise Him.

Much love.

I'm alive!

I'm back from Tulsa! Once again, I had a lovely college weekend. However, I'm glad to be back in Charlotte and back in my own bed.

Today, I received my class schedule for fall via email.

This fall, I'll be taking Reading/ Writing Liberal Arts, Theater Seminar, Fundamentals of Acting, Theatre History, Health Fitness I, Intro to Humanities, and Mathematics & Society.

All in all, I'll be taking on 16.5 credit hours my first semester - not too shabby.