This is like that feeling you get after reading the last page of the book… we get so involved in the story that we even participate as a character or choose to be the narrator. When this is over, we’ll need a minute to deal with it. Then, it comes the beginning of the crisis until finding the next story: ―Which book should it be? About a specific author? Do you have any recommendations?

It is a similar feeling as watching every season of your favorite TV show. The one you’re talking and tweeting about 24/7 and you’ve memorize every phrase and expression (as if you were one of the screenwriters). That feeling when you’re willing to ignore any social media just to avoid spoilers on that last episode of the season. When this is all done, that´s when we start entering on that spot full of uncertainty, though we should make a simple pause there, before looking and finding a new show as good one as the previous.

That type of feelings… that’s sort of how every transition feels. Changes commonly arrive with a bag full of questions, wariness or rejection. Yet still there are others coming with promises, adventures and the best emotions. However, in my life, this represents an incredible commotion of doubts and sensations, but…that’s just me…

I like to call this breakpoints, or in other words, those decisions that will define more than expected…

That’s the way we grow and keep moving forward. No matter how hard we try to predict our future or the consequences, probably, we’ll continue making some mistakes along the way. Also, it is completely valid to change our minds. We rarely decide something knowing it will affect us; and there should be always a brief time allowed just to think…

In the next two or three months, one of my recent changes is becoming or just calling myself “Graduate on… “ and it is not only about getting a degree, it represents a chapter in my life that’s now completed (Yes! FINALLY!). It apparently opens different doors for me, at least on an academic matter.

I’m not trying to go on the sweet speech, but, finishing a professional career becomes more than just getting a license, or the dedicated years, or the people we’ve met. For most of the people, it is about your break point, when you stop being treated as a wreck less student with opportunities and permissible mistakes. For some reason when you graduate from any university, you’re now seen as a formal adult. As if everyone was waiting for that time to congratulate you with some decoration, a cake and countless responsibilities that seemed to be obviously part of the “real life”. Yet I still don’t understand why everyone is using this basic phrases… or this means… everything lived or experienced during college, doesn’t count?

For some reason I don’t know, as a graduate, decisions become relevant… but it’s ok, don’t’ worry, everyone it’s responsible on its own life, as actions, or consequences… No pressure, right?

However, this is not about university, the previous paragraph was just an example of these type of transitions. At the end of the  day each of us is a whole world. Some will struggle more moving from their city, changing jobs, ending a relationship, or marriage, etc.

That’s the dilemma of any transition. Deciding on the next step and just doing it.

I thought it was easier…

It is not something you’ll face once, it actually happens every time, in different levels. That’s what truly defines our ups and downs, our odd lives and what we all have to deal with.

That’s where the “climax” is, on how we act or decide with every change presented to us. We can fight it, hate it, or do the opposite. We all live this on different ways, trying to adapt to those transformations. It is not hard, it’s just complicated…

We can finish for now, concluding that this is just like trying to discuss with someone every perspective, thoughts or even mixed feelings, but always about the same book… it’s going to be different for every person.