Cha-Cha-Cha-CHANGES!

Today marks my 6-month anniversary working as a WIC Nutritionist. Coworkers say that it isn't often that nutritionists my age last this long working for WIC primarily because of the fact that "they're young, they're still trying to figure out what to do with their lives." My take? There's only one way to figure it out...give it a shot, a genuine shot, and decide from there. For the same reason why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover nor throw away a decent pair of brand new shoes just because they're a little bit tight, you shouldn't give up on a job too soon. Read the synopsis on the inside cover, break into those heels, and that new job that you're almost sure you're going to quit after your first week? Tough it out. Trust me, it's worth it.

I find out in less than two weeks whether or not I got into a dietetic internship program. This is it. This is my chance to find out if the next path will lead me to becoming a Registered Dietitian. And to be brutally honest? I'm expecting the worst possible scenario. I just want to be prepared for rejection, but still hope for the best. I'm anticipating chaos, so I can more easily return to state of sanity. It's my way of setting myself up to allow myself to handle the situation "like an adult" (still haven't figured out what that means). It's like being rejected after spilling your heart out to that "special person" in your life. You don't want to be that person who locks themselves up in their room beating themselves up about it. You want to be that person who accepts it for what it is and moves on with their lives, head-on. And the best way to go about doing it is to let go of all your expectations, and just go with it. And because they put it best, in the words of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (movie):

"It's like, there's all these emotions and ideas and they come quick and they change and they leave and they come back in a different form and I think we're all taught we should be consistent. Y'know? You love someone -- that's it. Forever. You choose to do something with your life -- that's it, that's what you do. It's a sign of maturity to stick with that and see things through. And my feeling is that's how you die, because you stop listening to what is true, and what is true is constantly changing. You know?"