Settle In
Post-grad life. Hmm. It's only been 3 months and it's already given me a number of conundrums and complexes. Okay, maybe I'm being a tad dramatic. But it is definitely a confusing time. Even though I've recently been learning a ton about waiting (see last blog post), I've still struggled with having one foot in the present and one foot in the future, seeking out my next successful path. However, one simple sentence from one person has been destroying me for over a week. "Bethany, I can see that you're not settling into your new life here in Norman." All kinds of thoughts went off in my head when I heard that, but the most noticeable was that I automatically equated "settling in" with "settling". Part of the problem boiled down to my definition of the word "settle". I was using the definition that says "to become fixed, to become quiet and orderly, to take up an ordered and stable life". In other wor