Get a Fresh Start: Leave the High School Drama!

College comes at the best time in your life.  You are young enough to have all the freedoms in the world while finally being old enough to enjoy them. In a way unlike any other, college allows you to be free to explore life, and all of it’s possibilities.  There will be Keggers, and long study hours, and stress like never before.  It is a time of great change and upheaval.  Of course you would want the one true love of your life to be there, supporting you, right?  Well, there are actually a lot of good reasons why college might be a reason to end your relationship, before it crashes and burns:

Stress – College is one big crisis after another.  There are papers and late classes and sudden expenses all over the place.  If you are like most student’s, you’ve never lived alone before, or with a roommate.  All of that stress in one place makes for a horrific disaster area.  Even when good relationships are placed in that pot, they can crack or break.  When they do, they only magnify everything else.  A bad week in college is bad enough without adding the stress of a crumbling relationship to it.

Exploration – Don’t get me wrong, I am all about sticking with what you love.  But at some point you have to at least see what other ways there are to live, even if they only confirm what you already liked.  College is one of the best opportunities to explore because you will have relatively few responsibilities, your life will already already be in flux, and no one else cares what you do.  No matter how much you love your sweetheart, the last thing you want is for that exploration to come along in a couple of decades when it will hurt you both more.

Change – College isn’t just about stress and parties.  This is a time when you are coming into your life and potential.  Whether you like it or not, you are going to be experiencing new things, meeting new people, and changing.  That change means that you are going to change in some very important ways that can damage a relationship.  Fighting the changes in your life can lead to a lot of misery and trouble.  If you are free to change without worrying about someone else, it will be much easier to navigate to be who you want to be.

Futures – College is about stepping forward into the future.  Everything you do is directed at a goal where you hope to someday be.  But you are not there yet and it can be harder to move toward it the more tied you are to the past.  Even if you enjoy a great 4 years together with your high school love, you are still going to have the future ahead to conquer.  Chances are pretty high that you are both going to be aimed somewhere different.  Don’t hold each other back by focusing on the comfort that you’ve already achieved, but move on to something new.

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Ses C. is a writer for BecomeaPoliceOfficer.com.In order to be a police officer, this site can help you learn what you have to do to get in this career.