YEAH, wow! We were stunned too. After weeks of sleep-deprivation, eating take-out and keeping each other awake for late night study sessions (slap on the forehead there) , Chris finally took the GRE. The GRE is the graduate school entrance examination. It is very difficult because all the test takers are competing with other top-college graduates heading to advanced degrees. In other words, it is HARD!Husband had taken the GRE a few weeks earlier and done very well, in fact, he had scored in the 90-99 percentile on both the reading and math sections. Those scores are fantastic- but he had a goal to do even better. And... he did.
I was driving to pick him up from the nearby testing center when my phone began to ring... I put the phone to my hear and barely had time to ask "hello?" before Chris mumbled something similar to... "Lu, I got a perfect score..?!". I screamed into the phone, pulled into the testing center parking lot, ran out of the car and threw my arms around him in unapologetic exhilaration. It was the best news I could have ever have expected to hear.
This experience doesn't mean the end of tough grad school applications, but it does represent a monumental, ginormous turning point! ..which is why we went and ate ice cream for dinner afterwards and scrapped homework for the rest of the night.
Celebrations are important because working hard requires rewards, however small and insignificant they may be. As long as something is a reward to you, it must be indulged in, it must have time set aside for it. Life is too short to be without spurts of jumping-up-and-down in the car and eating utterly outrageous amounts of ice cream... just because we can.
As you power through life and work toward your dreams with all your might, I hope you find something to celebrate in the next little while! Happy living and enjoying!
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