badminton and thinking abt the future
I tried out for my schools badminton team. Not because I thought I had any change of being on the team, but because I like badminton. I haven’t rly played in a couple years, I’m in grade 12 and I don’t take gym as an elective anymore (for the best tho, 0/10 class). But its still a very fun sport. I’m going off to uni next September, I really only have 5 months of school left until then, 2 of them filled with exams. I wonder if universities have low key sports. For funsies. Like not hyper competitive, competing in national levels, but like “I vaguely remember liking this in the last let me try it again” type vibes. I could probably ask someone, and they probably do, but then I’d have to face the fact that I’m going off to uni next September. Uni has always been this mythical place I’d go to, very far in the future. Not next year no never, that’s at least 2-3 years in the future.
I bring this up, because it was checking my phone after wandering out of a 1h badminton tryout, 4:30pm and the sky’s already dark, to see an email. I applied early to all my universities, majority of my friends did, we go to a very academic focused school, and sitting in my inbox, an acceptance. Dude it’s November, wth. I’m supposed to have AT LEAST another like 2 months until I have to confront the fact I’ll be moving out and going to uni. I'm not a huge fan of big changes (is anyone really?), and although I know I'll absolutely love going to uni, its going to be different. Very different. Part of me wishes I could stay here forever, in the same school, with the same friends. But on the other hand, if I have to take another English lit class I might lose it. I'm going to love uni, the idea of leaving everything behind is just going to take some time to prosses. And that's ok <3