Searching

The rush of picking classes, waiting for online registration to begin I begin to feel that I am truly beginning to enjoy my time as a university student. There is still a lack of social time that I have spent on campus and I feel there are so many students here, everyday at lunch I see a new face, so clearly there ARE students here and friendships beginning developed. I feel that the downfall in SSU lacking a strong community for freshman students is the social scene. Academic are great and the teachers are fantastic, it is easy to see that the professors all love what they do! Music is amazing and having an ipod with music playing makes life seem like a movie soundtrack. It plays into emotions and can be calming when everything doesn't go your way. Right now the soundtrack to August Rush fits my mood perfectly. Possibly described as somewhat melancholy, and searching for something. What could I possibly be searching for? I am in the most amazing relationship and we both have a great drive to achieve, we communicate. What am I searching for? Happiness, because that doesn't wait for anyone, it must be seized in the moment. I have a calling or a thought in my head telling me to maintain 'inner peace,' become very buddhist like, I do not need things and create closer relationships with people I care about and I grasp at it, but I do not know if I am reaching it. I guess I am searching for a greater meaning to life and how to live with compassion for all that is around me.