COLLEGE

getting through high school isn't too tough.  quickly, you learn how to navigate between people and groups and know which teachers to talk to and which to avoid.  Not a problem, because at the end of the day, to home you go and the comforts and warmth of a mother's arms and a bed you've slept in for many many years.  But college is a whole different playing field.  High school is the minor leagues.  You've just been signed to the majors in college.  And just like that, a bus hits and your in a room that others have used.  Your in a city or town that maybe you don't know.  Not only do you have to navigate between groups of people and classes, but also trying to find a grocery store.  Welcome to life, the world screams at you while you stare questioning at a map.  Welcome to life.  To the real world.  To the rest of your life.  You are no longer in the warmth and comfort of your mother's arms.  You have just stepped into a world you only hoped about when younger but didn't dare to dream about.  A new life, and a new beginning.  No one is here telling you who to be, all of the strings are broken and you are the person that you wish to become, you want others to see you as.  No parents to catch you when you fall.  Hopefully, you'll have supporting friends, ones that will try and lift you back up again if you do happen to fall.  Hopefully, you'll have comforting teachers and administrators who will temporarily take the place of arms where you can cry to.  Welcome, the world whispers, almost cynically, almost mercilessly, almost wishing you to fail.  Wishing disaster and chaos to come into your once peaceful life.  Welcome, and good luck.