Transition

I applied to two universities my senior year in high school, one was a long shot I had a 1% chance of getting in, at the other I was a shoe-in. A few months ago I went online to check the school I knew I would get into. I logged into my submitted application, clicked on the status check, and to my horror I was staring at a paragraph explaining I had not been accepted. College is one of those things that is constantly in the back of your mind while going through high school, and one of my greatest fears had finally come true. Just as I was beginning to cope with the fact that I would live at home with my parents the rest of my life I got a call from the university explaining they had made a mistake and were very sorry. During that time I felt a great sigh of relief sweep over me, but now righting this the day before I begin my freshman year of college I'm anxious and a part of me is sad.
I know college will be a great experience, I'll make new friends, share fun experiences, and I'll end up really enjoying it, but no one warned me about the transition time. The time where you miss your old home, your friends, parents and move into an awkward new arena where you don't know anyone. I'm beginning to realize that life is made up of a lot of small changes and several large transitions. I somehow thought that after you finished your first weeks of middle school you had somehow graduated from the "transition time" and now moved on to something much smoother, but I'm finding I was dead wrong and somehow I feel the transitions in life, whether it be a new marriage or a new home, only get harder. I wish I could freeze time, even if it's just for a few more days just so I could stay where I'm at, stay content, but I realize that if I just stayed where I was I would never grow. I would never become who I'm meant to be because I would end up sitting in the same spot my life and never moving forward. Ultimately the transition time we all experience in life is meant to bring new purpose, and even though going through it is hard, when we come out on the other side we're better for it. And some of those things you don't want to let go of right now somehow seem to come back to you later on in life.