The Future....and other stuff!

It's that time of year again.  No, not christmas, still have to wait 121 days for that! September is a new beginning for many people.  Maybe it means a new job, a new home or in many peoples cases a new school year.  Whether it's your first day of secondary school or the beginning of third level education, it doesn't matter.  We're all equally nervous!  It usually means new friends, new surroundings and new difficulties to face.  It's important to put focus on your future but also know that it doesn't change who you are as a person depending on what you study or where you go or if you do third level at all!

You can always count on Gandhi for a bit of advice ;)

In Ireland, the CAO points system determines your future pretty much.  The day you get your results, you add up your grades to see whether you'll have the points to fulfil your dream.  We spend 6 years building up to this moment, but something that no one in all those years prepares you for is the disappointment, the heartbreak and the unknown of what to do next.  News stations, reporters, photographers, none of them ever focus on the upset people, the people whose whole lives have just crashed before them.  All you ever see are the happy girls jumping in the air.  Don't get me wrong, if I had succeeded in getting what I wanted, I'm sure I would've been right there with them, but not this time around. 

 

                                                           Yeah....Not so much!

 What is important is to go out that day/night, talk to your friends and other people and realise that you are not the only unsatisfied person out there.  That would be the number one thing i would recommend as someone whose been there.  The next few days are all a bit blurry and uncertain until Monday comes along, and with it the ACTUAL day that determines your future: Offers Day.

Me, along with everything I own!

No, I didn't get my first choice of going to Maynooth, but by Monday I had accepted that and nearly moved on.  What I did get was the exact same course, at Maynooths satellite college in Kilkenny, and in a way that makes me more happy.  I'm half Kilkenny anyways, I'd never be far from a home cooked meal if I desired it and it's only a short drive up the road.  It's been a week now since I found out, the dust has settled, and still when people congratulate me, i think back to that unhappy girl, crying her eyes out on results day.  She thought that was the end of the line, little did she know it's (hopefully) only the beginning!

May your odd socks be ever together

xx

Aislinn