Pre-Graduation Isomnia

I graduate tomorrow/later today at noon. I have a terrible cough and haven't gotten more than maybe 4-5 hours of sleep the past week.

Yet I still can't fall asleep.

The concept of time has always fascinated me. To think that right now, some kid in this city is going to my Elementary School, having fun, living a similar carefree life that I had some 3000+ days ago baffles me. I love toying with the idea that I'm not the only individual person in this world; other people laugh, eat potatoes, and think about their future, too. Add in time, however, and you've got a completely new level of contemplation. That boy (individual count: 2, me and the boy) has a father (3), just like me. Yet his father, while still being a father, is maybe fifteen years younger than my own dad (4). And my grandpa (5) at one point was my dad's age, taking care of my dad when he was a small fry. And one of these days I'll presumably bring a grandpa, bringing the individual count to six. Why, then, are these otherwise similar characters so different? It brings truth to the old adage "time will tell" as well as the definition of the word "individual." Thus, you've got twenty-somethings who marry right out of college, forty-somethings who never marry, thirty-somethings roaming the streets asking for change, sixty-somethings who've known the worth of a man only in economic terms.

And you've got me, a happily confused twenty-one year old, graduating a semester early, not exactly yet kind of sure why he wanted it that way, still debating if he made the right choice regarding what college to go to and which fields to study, staying up and writing a blog about it.

Better get at least some rest...