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Una giorno alla volta

 One Day at a Time

Now having a total of five drafts saved in my blogger, I finally decide to blog about this random song I stumbled upon.   Go figure.  Hopefully this will put me in the mood to blog more.  Wild and Young by American Bang.  I originally heard it on a TV show, once played then it was stuck in my head, so I had to look it up.  Of course then I checked out the lyrics and surprisingly found myself motivated to blog about them.  

I have always been the one that spends too much time planning the future. So much sometimes that I miss what is going on in the present time.  My senior year of high school I was so wrapped up in planning my pre-law college undergrad and what I needed to do to achieve my "picture-perfect" future.  Then when I got into college, I spent many afternoons researching many different law schools.  Once, I gave up on the law school idea, I just spent the time searching for what other careers and graduate schools I could pursue.  I was always anticipating the next part in my life.  The truth is that looking back I missed out on so much that was going around me.  However, Italy my time in Italy was a little different.

Going to Italy with the idea that I need to discover myself, I allowed myself to adapt and change to the things and people around me.  I had no idea of what the semester was going to entail, so for once I didn't worry about the future and focused on the present.  Thinking of the future meant saying Arrivederci, and the truth is that I never wanted my time in Italy to end.  From late nights on Via Zamboni or Alma Mater, I lived life to the fullest.  I was living a four-month-long adventure of a lifetime.  I didn't want to leave with any regrets.  At many times I even wanted time to slow down.  I even learned to walk like a Sicilian and learned not to be in a hurry.  I learned to live for the present, and take each day as a gift from God. 

 “Slow it down you move a little too fast

Gotta take a deep breath and make it last
These should be the best days of your life
We are wild and young”

So here I am, almost twenty years old.  While my teen years are ending, I know that I am still young; still learning, and still have a world to explore.  No more fretting about the unknown future.  Just one day at a time.