Dear ol' Cottey C
So I'm sitting here at work with absolutely NOTHING to do. The phone isn't ringing and people aren't coming to the desk for help. Oh, and incase you didn't know I work at a Resort at the Front Desk... hey, it's pretty good pay for a poor college student like myself. So since there's nothing to do of course my mind wanders and I just start thinking about things... especially the past...
Sometimes I sit back and wish I was still at Cottey. Why is it when your in the midst of things the grass is always greener on the other side? When I lived at Cottey all I wanted was to live at home here in San Diego, but now that I'm here I look back on things while I was at Cottey and realize how good I really had it there.
Everytime someone here in California hears that I went to school for two years in Missouri they automatically assume I'm crazy or something for actually volunteering to live in what they call "Misery", but the truth of the matter is, is that some of my best memories took place there. Sure classes were a challenge (that's good though...isn't it?)... don't even get me started about Astronomy (barf), but things were good there. There was no need for this work mumbo jumbo and I could actually take the time to focus on my school work. Now I'm always so busy trying to earn a buck to pay rent that sometimes I forget about my priorities.
I also made some of my most closest friends there and I met some people there who I will never forget. Even the ones who I had little tiffs with I hope to keep in touch with. The only bummer part about Cottey is that all your friends are from around the United States if not around the World. It kind of sucks when all you want is to see your best bud who use to just live down the hall from you, but now she's over 1,000 miles away.
I guess what all this has taught me is to just appreciate what you've got at that moment in time. Things aren't always greener on the other side and that's something my Mom's been telling me since I was small... yet I still sometimes tend to think it is.
To all my Cottey girls out there I miss you all tons! (Arizona Suite, Rosemary Suite (both years) and everyone else I knew and had a blast with!)
Sometimes I sit back and wish I was still at Cottey. Why is it when your in the midst of things the grass is always greener on the other side? When I lived at Cottey all I wanted was to live at home here in San Diego, but now that I'm here I look back on things while I was at Cottey and realize how good I really had it there.
Everytime someone here in California hears that I went to school for two years in Missouri they automatically assume I'm crazy or something for actually volunteering to live in what they call "Misery", but the truth of the matter is, is that some of my best memories took place there. Sure classes were a challenge (that's good though...isn't it?)... don't even get me started about Astronomy (barf), but things were good there. There was no need for this work mumbo jumbo and I could actually take the time to focus on my school work. Now I'm always so busy trying to earn a buck to pay rent that sometimes I forget about my priorities.
I also made some of my most closest friends there and I met some people there who I will never forget. Even the ones who I had little tiffs with I hope to keep in touch with. The only bummer part about Cottey is that all your friends are from around the United States if not around the World. It kind of sucks when all you want is to see your best bud who use to just live down the hall from you, but now she's over 1,000 miles away.
I guess what all this has taught me is to just appreciate what you've got at that moment in time. Things aren't always greener on the other side and that's something my Mom's been telling me since I was small... yet I still sometimes tend to think it is.
To all my Cottey girls out there I miss you all tons! (Arizona Suite, Rosemary Suite (both years) and everyone else I knew and had a blast with!)