When I began my education at the University of Louisville, I never dreamed that I would complete the experience with a five-week adventure to China. The preparations for the trip have built a familiar, hopeful anticipation. The feeling reminds me of the few weeks before I entered college, the growing understand that something new and life-changing waited for me. As I reflect on all of my cherished memories of Louisville, I find that those reflections do not spark the same excitement that their anticipation once did.
The anticipation of a future event holds a pure and wonderful character. Anticipation allows the future to be in a simultaneous state of unity and endless multiplicity. As I look forward to my departure, I think of the China trip in its entirety, as a unified whole. Although I know the different activities I will undertake while abroad, the anticipation enables me to compress my hopes into a single, positive emotion. The multiplicity of the future derives from the endless number of possibilities that may occur. However, once an experience is complete, the unified emotion transforms into an inability to consolidate one's memories. My reflections on college resulted in a broad array of emotions. Pictures of happiness, sadness, elation, and depression flashed through my mind, but I can no longer distill my collegiate impressions into one emotion. A flood of experienced variety prevailed. The occurrence of an event also destroys the endless multiplicity. The number of possibilities became finite and their results known.
I do not wish to lament over the loss of anticipation. I only wish to recognize that emotion’s unique and positive attributes. The events that build this wonderful, nervous hope must occur. Without their occurrence, no anticipation could develop. However, one cannot deny the glorious excitement created by the future prospect of experience. To live is not simply to move through different experiences but to feel them as well. The feeling of anticipation represents the climb up that first large hill of the emotional roller coaster. The energy stored in this climb carries a person through a torrent of unexpected drops and loops. In studying one's life, a person must review the their changing perceptions of experiences over time.
The anticipation of a future event holds a pure and wonderful character. Anticipation allows the future to be in a simultaneous state of unity and endless multiplicity. As I look forward to my departure, I think of the China trip in its entirety, as a unified whole. Although I know the different activities I will undertake while abroad, the anticipation enables me to compress my hopes into a single, positive emotion. The multiplicity of the future derives from the endless number of possibilities that may occur. However, once an experience is complete, the unified emotion transforms into an inability to consolidate one's memories. My reflections on college resulted in a broad array of emotions. Pictures of happiness, sadness, elation, and depression flashed through my mind, but I can no longer distill my collegiate impressions into one emotion. A flood of experienced variety prevailed. The occurrence of an event also destroys the endless multiplicity. The number of possibilities became finite and their results known.
I do not wish to lament over the loss of anticipation. I only wish to recognize that emotion’s unique and positive attributes. The events that build this wonderful, nervous hope must occur. Without their occurrence, no anticipation could develop. However, one cannot deny the glorious excitement created by the future prospect of experience. To live is not simply to move through different experiences but to feel them as well. The feeling of anticipation represents the climb up that first large hill of the emotional roller coaster. The energy stored in this climb carries a person through a torrent of unexpected drops and loops. In studying one's life, a person must review the their changing perceptions of experiences over time.