Keep Calm and Carry On

I hate trends. One of my biggest pet peeves is ignorance and I really hate when people act passionate about something they know very little about just because it is the trendy thing to do. For example, the Invisible Children "make Kony famous" campaign drove me insane. People around campus were wearing IC shirts, posting Kony 2012 campaign posters, talking about Uganda, and promoting social activism for weeks. This is all great, but very few of these people had never heard of IC before, had never heard or cared about the name Joseph Kony, or had never even looked Uganda up on a map. So. Frustrating. Anyway, trends in general tend to annoy me.

Now, you may think it a little weird that the title of this post is "Keep Calm and Carry On," especially because it is a very recent, over used trend. I'll admit, I winced a little when I found myself repeating this phrase over and over again in my head, but this little phrase carries so much!

This week is registration week for freshmen at my school--meaning the very last week of registration--and  everyone has been stressed and panicked about getting the classes they need to take. I, being the stress-free and collected girl that I am, frantically checked the schedule of classes online every hour praying that the classes I wanted hadn't filled up. Of course, most of the classes I wanted filled up on Monday, and my registration time was 4 p.m. yesterday (Thursday). You can imagine what a whirlwind this threw me into. I do not like my plans to be disrupted and I like to overreact when they are. So I pretty much spent the past three days on the phone with my mom complaining about the unfairness of the system and being dramatic about not finishing school in four years.

I ended up getting classes at the right times, but I had to sacrifice some classes for others. Which is fine. I don't always need things to go my way. In fact, it is healthy to face a little adversity because it teaches you to relax. Keep calm, and carry on. It's a perfect little phrase for those high stress moments. Life goes on whether you planned it that way or not.

At the end of the day God is in control and no matter what, everything will work out perfectly. I even found out today that I got off the wait list and into the journalism class I really wanted to take!

So when life seems to be throwing curve balls....Keep Calm and Carry On. Everything will be just fine:)