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A new word that has occurred to me that has created a great significance to my life, and I hope to others, is to missy, or, when used in other contexts, missying or missy’d. What does the word missy means? To me, missy means to be so caught up in the troubles of everyday life that one forgets to sit back and enjoy the experiences that life has to offer.

Due the whole hustle and bustle of everyday college life, I began to notice that I was missying out on what is truly important to me. Although it is important to me to spend a great amount of time studying, I began to noticed that I was truly missying those who I considered to be important people in my life. I greatly missy’d them, and, in return, my friends and family were missying me as well. I was missying them so hard, but, it was even harder for me to take time away from the tasks that have occupied daily life that, sadly, sometimes they came second to my tasks.

When I began to consider this, about how I was missying out on the crucial time that I could be spending doing the things I enjoy, such as hiking or spending time with my friends or loved ones. So then, although I still managed to keep pace with the work that was put in front of me, I began to start spending more and more time doing the things that I love. Nevertheless, I still felt that I was missying out on different aspects of life that I enjoy.

Although I do love spending time with my friends and family, as well as spending time engaging in the activities that I greatly enjoy, I began to noticed that I missy’d the work that I had been engaged in during my scholastic time. Although scholastics can be tiring and tedious at times, I ultimately enjoy the work that comes with scholastic work. Nothing makes me feel greater than succeeding, and it took away a great part of my life when I began to focus less on the work that was put in front of me. I began to missy the work that had been put in front of me and that I needed to put myself back into the motion of focusing on scholastics in order to not missy it.

Nevertheless, by switching focus from spending the greater portion of my time with scholastics instead of friends, family, and activities, I began to missy these aspects of my life; however, when I further made the switch of focus, I was also missying the scholastic work. This created a huge problem for me. I want to both spend time with the ones I love and doing the things I love, but I also wanted to spend time on my scholastics, but, nevertheless, I was missying out on both of the aspects of life that I had greatly enjoyed. So what was the catch to stopping this seemingly endless cycle of missyness?

The only option to stop missying things was through proper time management, as simple as that sounds, in order to ensure that I was satisfied both socially as well as scholastically, in order to ensure that both my social life and scholastic life were fulfilled to their absolute fullest, and that I was not missying out on any opportunities.