"Every new day is a chance to change your life."

I wake up every morning, hit snooze on my alarm, then get up and go about my mundane routine. I am not a person who particularly fears change, rather I embrace it. I nearly search for change in every aspect of my life. For me, change is a constant, a reminder that there is always a fresh start waiting for when I have decided I'm sick of my routine.

In the last few months, I have fully embraced change in all aspects of my life, physically, emotionally, socially. In all aspects, each change brings a feeling of new, exciting, and pureness, a chance to be whoever I want to be.

Physically, I've pierced my nose, dyed my hair (more than once), cut off my long curly hair, changed my style of clothes, added and changed accessories, and anything else I could think of to be a new person. With each change, whether small or grand, I feel a sense of relief, like with the change of my physical appearance, a new me is a born. Of course small changes to our physical appearance occur regularly, each specific and thought-out change brings me one step closer to who I want to be, physically and emotionally.

To add to my physical change, I decided to change my environment. After my high school graduation from a small school in Cambridge, MA, I decided to make the change I always dreamt of and pack my bags and head to New York. My whole life I dreamt of leaving Boston for a new life, new friends, a new place, and here I am making the change, heading to New York. With this change I have learned change is good, but hard, to say goodbye to the comfort of home and family and friends is difficult to say the least. But home is where the heart is, and they will always be home through my journey of change.

Emotionally, I have grown and changed through my life, however, the last six months have proved to be the most pivotal emotional changes. I have found a new and important appreciation for self-love and mental health. I have let go of grudges, found peace in where I am, and released some of the pressure I have placed on myself. I have always held myself to the highest standard of perfection, and it is still a journey I am working through, I have taken off some of the pressure and embraced that where I am physically, mentally, emotionally, is exactly where I am meant to be.

My journey through my emotional changes and well being will be a life long one, like most are, and with each change and step, both forwards and backwards. I am making necessary changes and progress to becoming my happiest, healthiest, and most content version of myself.

Socially, in my journey to discover myself through changes, I have changed friends, become closer and more distant to various people in my life, and found appreciation for everyone. I have made new friends, girls I never imagined how pivotal they could be to my life, meet guys who have left me with the most amazing memories, made connections with incredible adults who have guided me and loved me through every change. With every new connection, could come a disconnect, I have grown with and out grown friends and people in my life, although at one point each person incredibly impacted my life, our changes brought us in separate directions.

Yes, change is scary, the unknown is uncomfortable, but how amazing is it that one day, we can change our whole life, be exactly who we want to be with a brand new fresh start. We can move across the world, cut our hair, find a new career, make new friends, and live our new lives. With every change, comes uncertainty, but within every uncertainty is the comfort of our roots, we can always come back, and always escape to a new challenge and chance to change our lives.