It is the start of a new semester, and we are back into the flow of things.
The time recently has passed for us to finalize all of our classes, stick with what we have and set sail for a four-month academic journey.
A majority of us already have a few seasons of collegiate studies under our belts, and any newcomers will soon learn the ins and outs of life on campus as they adapt and learn in a new setting.
Already we are nearing the end of January, but I still feel like New Year’s Eve was just a few days ago. For those of you who have made New Year’s resolutions, I hope you are still on track with what you had planned and have not forgotten your goals. (Keep at it!)
As I have been thinking about the new year and everything it brings, I have started to realize that beginnings might actually be continuations of something else.
This school or work year, for example, is another phase of learning and laboring in many of our lives. Then the upcoming presidency will be the next step for a politician’s career.
The commencement of a new book — whether you are the writer or reader, publisher or seller — signifies the expression of words, ideas and thoughts that have already been at work in the minds of many long before they find their place in print.
Beginnings can also accompany endings.
Think of the last time you went on a trip. The moment you left your home base probably marked the start of an adventure and the stop of your normal routine.
Every day has a unique beginning of its own. Even when things seem to be the same as yesterday and the day before that, just look again.
Today essentially is a novel experience. Or maybe today is simply a novel — you know, an open playing field where our imaginations can run free.
Novelists create, ruminate and elucidate through their work (and play) on a daily basis.
It takes wisdom to create. Novelists apply their knowledge while using their imagination. Novelists think outside the boxy mindset of mainstream culture. Novelists throw bucketfuls of light on the hidden truths and obscured realities in our world.
You can do all of this as a “novelist” in your own field of interest — in film production, physical therapy or family psychology.
Anybody anywhere can harness his or her individual creativity and use it to invent something the world has never seen before. Inventions always bear similarities to things of the past, but their distinctions make the impressions in others that last.
No one has ever been at this moment in time before, so why not enjoy life as a novelist — with wisdom and discernment, as well as creativity and a whole lot of fun.
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Mark Miller is a sophomore journalism major. He is from Lancaster, Penn. and loves to travel, learn foreign languages and enjoy the outdoors.
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