Press Pause Please....

I'd like to take the opportunity to modify a quote from a dear roommate: "Press play please." I would suggest that now would be a great time to "Press PAUSE............please?" With Finals looming before me, not to mention the subsequent packing and goodbyes, I wish I could just press a Pause button on my life. Be it the added worry of moving out, or the harder nature of the classes I'm taking this semester, my stress level has reached a peak for the year and my head is on the verge of exploding from the crammed information I have stuffed into my brain. 

However, I think the worst part of this whole ordeal is the very finality of it all. Unlike last semester where I was just going home for a short time, now I face the very appropriately named FINAL weekend that is a veritable Final End to a lot of things. I feel like my life is a book in which the end of the chapter is coming and I can see it, but I don't want to read ahead because I know its going to be bleak. Maybe we could go back and reread the happy chapters? And as much as I want to stop it, I can feel the pages turning and the book closing with an ominous and resounding "SNAP." 

Maybe I'm overreacting, but the end always makes you look to the beginning and I can't help but feel like I need more time. More time to do what I planned. More time to make friends with the people I've lived around for the past eight months. More time to prepare myself for the inevitable goodbyes. More time. Period....or how about no period? Let's not end it. Let's keep it going. Instead of the terminating "period" let's just leave off at a semi-colon, or a nice ellipses...It just seems much kinder, less...FINAL. A little, "To Be Continued..." 

All you have to do is turn the page...