With Love, Thelms

Just reading the tail end of of today’s blog post title out loud gives me shivers. Solely because it’s so freaking surreal that I’m getting ready to enter my final semester of nursing school. It feels like just yesterday that I was excited, but scared shitless. Not knowing what to expect, but so pumped to reach my end goal at some point. 

And reach it I did.

Because I made it.

“Momma, (I’m yelling this by the way to the empty walls in my apartment lol) I made it!!!”

So naturally, for four semesters prior I’ve contemplated ways that I would go about preparing for the home stretch.

However, having finally reached this monumental point — I’ve come to the realization that there may be no specific way to prepare for my final semester. And even if there was I’m not sure I’d want the blueprint.

Because in many ways, to prepare for something is to have somewhat of an idea of what the journey may look like. That or having some sort of visualization on how you hope it all might go. & to be honest I’m not too bombarded with either thought.

I mean yeah.

Of course I want it to go well. That’s a given. I want my final semester to be something I get through with grace and the same drive that propelled me through thus far. I’m talking exit exam, last set of clinicals, etc. After all, I do want to finish. But I don’t want to be so focused on the preparation that I’m bummed when things don’t turn out the way I prepared. & again, can you really prepare for the end?

***for my nursing school babes, I am not saying that I won’t be preparing for my exit exam because I will. Hell, I am. Every single day. I’m just talking about the semester as a whole.

Now that I’m here at the home stretch, I’m just ready to dive in.

It’s all I can do because in order for one to finish, one must start. I’m almost positive somebody trying to make an impact with their words said that 150 years ago.

So yeah. No preparation. I’m just diving straight in. Head first or whichever way will lead me right to the end of the race.

BECAUSE I’M IN MY FINAL SEMESTER OF NURSING SCHOOL Y’ALL and if I don’t dive in…

I just might lose my damn mind lol.

To finishing strong and making this last semester something worth writing about,

Thelms