This time of year can be bittersweet for many of us. On the one hand, we have banked 30 more credits towards our degree. On the other, we’ll be leaving for the summer, will have good friends leaving for good, and for those of us graduating, this is the cap on the life we have known since kindergarten.
For many of us, it’s striking how terribly stressed out we are these days. We have so much on our plates, so many expectations – your own and other peoples’. Most of us are bound by our daytimers and driven by emails. We are tied up with fulfilling all of these obligations and expectations. We take roughly 20 minutes to consume the principle meals of the day.
Our culture has created this speed-up, rapid fire notion of ‘If you’re not doing something, you’re doing nothing.’ A tremendous amount of us are bound by the sense that we must do something all the time, and must justify ourselves, 24 hours a day.
Has the world gotten any better for all our fevered activity? Are things any more clear or pleasant or more comfortable for all of this? It’s a clockwork enterprise gone out of control.
As I look back on my time as an undergraduate, one thing I would leave students with is to stop and enjoy themselves. Our world is an exceptional place, and it is full of exceptional people. Get to know this place and those people.
One last thing you should know, is that even though you may have never uttered the word ‘God’ in your time at Trinity Western, aside perhaps in times of blasphemous distress, is that the God who brought you to Trinity Western and sustained you through your worst day, is going to see you through the rest of your life. And sooner or later, you ought to come to that realization, and it will be a comfort to you.
With Peace + Love,
John Hennenfent
Editor-in-Chief
