Aug 18 2008
Flying By The Seat Of My Pants
Ten years ago, my parents helped me pack our family minivan full of all my precious belongings (to an 18 year old girl “precious belongings” consist basically of clothes) and trucked me across the state to the small little town of Pullman. Washington State was the school I wanted to go to, but I wasn’t pumped about being there. I was just going through the motions, flying by the seat of my pants. I was going to college just to go. That’s what you’re supposed to do when you’re 18, right? And since I liked WSU better than U. Dub and Eastern (the only other places I’d applied) that’s where I went.
Little did I know, that small rural community would become such a huge part of my life. Pullman is where I had four of the most fun years of my life, where I met some of my best friends… one of whom now lives just blocks away from me here in Spokane. Pullman is where I figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up. It’s where I saw good ol’ KXLY 4 news for the first time. It’s where I met my future husband. Little did I know, that small rural community would put in place all of the stepping stones that put me where I am today.
Life’s twists and turns amaze me… that’s what I thought as my family walked through the WSU campus this weekend, almost ten years to the day my parents first dropped me off. Who knew ten years later, I’d be rolling my own minivan to campus? Haha, not me. Who knew ten years later, that I’d be strolling the WSU campus with my husband, a fellow Coug, and our daughter? It blows my mind to know that my life could be completely different and that my family wouldn’t exist, had I not gone to Washington State, had I not been “going through the motions”. It really is a sign that God has a plan for all of us. Though we might not know it at the time, He knows what’s in store… sometimes we just need to fly by the seat of our pants to see where he takes us.
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kalae,
those are the exact same sentiments i have about pullman and wsu! every time my 16 yr old son has spirit day for the apple cup at school i give him the talk about how he can thank wsu for his existence at all! i was reluctant and non-committal when i started there, too, and remember some very tearful drop-offs in the what seemed like the middle of nowhere after a lovely summer on the west side of the state. but pullman has a special place in my heart because it is there that i decided to go on an exchange program just to do it. it was that exchange program that led me to the job i have today and to meeting the man i married - wsu is where i met my husband who was there on an exchange program, too! i remember having the exact same feelings you described the first time i took my son to pullman and walked through the campus with him. yeah… pullman is special indeed.
jo