The Five Year Mark

Well, hello there!

     

          My name is Lindsey Litka. I'm a college student currently studying Communications and Journalism at Averett University. As a Junior in college I like to think that I have all of the answers, just as any early twenties person does...but the truth is that I don't. I make a lot of mistakes and as invincible as people seem to think I am at times I'm really not...trust me. 

          I was told by my Digital Media professor, Dr. Hoffman, to write this blog. It's a class assignment and instead of seeing it as a boring old assignment like some people might do, I have thought of a way to make this sort of interesting for myself. I've decided to start this blog and write it to the sixteen year old me. 

          I remember when I was a sixteen year old Junior in High School and my English teacher, Mrs. Becouvarakis (yea...what a name), asked me where I saw myself in five years. Looking back now I think about what I said and part of me laughs. There was no way I really thought that...really? Well, I had to have thought it because, believe it or not, she told us to write a paper on it and I still have that paper. I took it out from where I had hidden it (hoping it would never see the light of day ever again) and read it, comparing it to my life at the present moment. I'm almost to that five year point and my predictions from the past me are off...WAY off. 

          So, this led me to thinking about the kind of person I must have been at age sixteen. Was I demented or unrealistic or maybe just naive? I like to think naive. Then I began to think about the present moment and how I got here. So much has happened in my life in the past five years that I'm nearly shocked. I've grown an extraordinary amount in the time since I wrote that paper. 

          Now, I find myself compelled to write my naive, young, and impressionable self. I know that, in a way, this seems ridiculous. Writing to a 'me' that will never be able to read what I write but it feels good to look on all of the life lessons I have learned. Who knows...maybe there's a sixteen year old girl out there, just as lost and impressionable and naive as I was, and maybe this could help her one day. I know, at sixteen, I would have appreciated a little guidance...because apparently I was severely misguided. 

-LNL