Yesterday I drove to Connecticut for a good friend's graduation party. I drive a pickup truck that gets relatively good gas mileage for a truck and because everything that I need to drive to in Worcester is usually no more than 15 minutes away from my apartment, buying gas is not a huge problem for me even with my part-time, minimum wage income. As I was leaving for the party, I realized that I should probably fill my truck up with gas as prices are much cheaper in Worcester than in Connecticut and ended up spending fifty dollars...fifty dollars! How am I supposed to afford to do anything when the cost of living is so high?
Ever since I knew I planned to attend a college or university, my dad has warned me that I would, at some point, be a "poor college student" and for some reason I always believed that I could avoid that certain phase. In hindsight, I do not know how I planned to do that. With an unpaid internship that is required for both school and to get real experience to finally get a paying job along with working on a higher degree, there is not much opportunity to earn enough money to save. Therefore, I am indeed a "poor college student" and have failed to avoid the inevitable (ha).
That one moment of paying for gas is only a part of a larger concept that life is filled with different phases that come with challenges and experiences. So I have decided that I need to learn to embrace each phase of my life. Easy, right?
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