Sometimes, the hardest decisions involve choosing to let go, choosing to say no. Anyone who has had the slightest encounter with economics is familiar with the idea of “sunk cost”, yet even the most astute of us will sometimes forget this simple principle. I grew up being told to never give up, but the truth is sometimes, that is better option. Giving up is not always the easy way out, in fact many times it is much harder to make that decision than to just plunge ahead.

This is not the first time I have found myself taking up too many commitments, but I am going to do damage control before it’s too late this time. I’m not going to let my pride get the of me anymore. Ambition can kill; it’s time for me to be more realistic.

Don’t bite off more than you can swallow. I’ve been told this since I was a little kid, and I’m finally beginning to take it to heart.

Totally unrelated: I love Pandora Radio, what would I do without it?

And so it eventually hops out, laying there, startling and bare. Now that it’s here, in my lap, what am I suppose to do about it? Live on like it never happened? That’s a lie. Because it did, and ignoring facts is not the same as erasing them (if only I could). A part of me, albeit small, almost wish that I didn’t find out. After all the anger, I just feel really sad. Truth tends to be inconvenient, though maybe only in the short-term. But in the interim, between the short-term and what Keynes so famously spoke of, the truth can also be helpful.

In short, this is just another lesson in growing up, a night of interesting discoveries.

It’s my last semester at Duke and I’m dreading it more than ever. Not because I don’t want college to end, I think I’m outgrowing it, but because it looks like it’s going to be terrible >.<. Blaaahhh

I don’t want to go, I don’t want to go, I don’t want to gooooo……

ok, I’ll stop whining and go finish packing now. *sniff* I’m gonna miss home and my dad and the snow and all the ridiculous holiday fun and bumming around and ahhh i need to stop thinking about this. break is really over *teeeeaaars*