{"id":5261,"date":"2020-04-17T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2020-04-17T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:00:58","slug":"stop-and-smell-the-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5261","title":{"rendered":"Stop and Smell the Ros\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Sarah Joseph, Food and Wellness Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

A few short months ago I wrote these words for the January issue: \u201cAnother year has come and gone. 100 Days has just passed and I have become very reflective as of late. After all, I am about to enter the workforce and adult life will hit me in a few short months. This year will be a year of transition for me\u2013I will be graduating from college and beginning a new chapter of my life.\u201d Without meaning to, I set into motion a reflection and realization that I had thought I would have at least until May to come to face, but with my time at Roanoke cut short, I have had to think about what comes next sooner than I intended as well as look back on my time in a town that stole my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few days after the shock of the decision to go online for the rest of the spring semester, I wrote this<\/a> on my Instagram account.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Although I may have been a tad bit dramatic, I did start to look back at my last four years. And it filled me with a nostalgia that only a college graduate can feel. While I could tell you all the wonderful, difficult, trying times I have gone through (whilst trying not to cry) and give you some hard-earned advice, I am not going to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, I am going to tell you about what only a Food Editor naturally chose to do for her senior year: Every Monday, I drank a bottle of ros<\/span>\u00e9<\/span>. My goal for senior year was to accomplish a tangible thing (besides a diploma), so I decided to become a connoisseur of rose (or at least every bottle on the shelf of Kroger).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So every Monday, I rose up to the challenge. I would drink a bottle of ros<\/span>\u00e9,<\/span> watch a movie or <\/span>The Bachelor <\/span><\/i>with my friends and just unwind. Mondays already sucked, why not make it better? I dedicated time every week solely to myself–no work, no obligation, nothing could come between me and my ros<\/span>\u00e9<\/span>…every…Monday. (This was sometimes hard to do especially since I was going through Senior Seminar fall semester.) At first my friends laughed at me and questioned why I had to drink a whole bottle every Monday. Why not just a glass or two?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And I wondered about it too, because clearly that is beyond the standard drinking size. But as the Mondays flew by, I saw my answer as each empty wine bottle lined the top of my wardrobe. I had a physical, tangible passage of time right above my wardrobe. I could track each week of my senior year just based on the wine bottle I drank that week. And it was beautiful. I don\u2019t think it was purposeful. I certainly didn\u2019t mean to create a diary of wine, but I did. I had a record of my senior year and tangible evidence of accomplishing something (even if it is just drinking a bottle of wine every Monday).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess there are a lot of lessons I could draw from my Ros<\/span>\u00e9<\/span> Monday, as I liked to call it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Dedicate time to yourself even when you are beyond stressed<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Look forward to something each week ( I really did look forward to Monday–crazy right?)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Accomplish a small victory every week<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Record the memories<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But the biggest lesson I found was that I should do at least one thing I love every week, regardless of the usefulness of it or the judgment of others. As long as you love and enjoy it (granted, if it is 100% illegal and puts others in danger\/harm\u2019s way, I don\u2019t condone that), then do it. Because that is what life is all about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    So I guess I lied. I did have some advice after all. What can I say, I am an editor and that\u2019s what we like to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    I want to say thank you to everyone who has read my articles throughout my time at the Brackety-Ack and who has been willing to allow me into their life, if only for a moment.\u00a0 I am sad to no longer say I am an editor of a newspaper (but I hope one day I can say that again ;P).<\/span><\/p>\n

    I wish good luck to everyone who still has more years as a student to go (undergrad and beyond). Don\u2019t forget to stop and smell the ros<\/span>\u00e9<\/span>!<\/span><\/p>\n

    Thank you from your thirsty Food & Wellness editor,<\/span><\/p>\n

    Sarah Joseph<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Written by Sarah Joseph, Food and Wellness Editor A few short months ago I wrote these words for the January issue: \u201cAnother year has come and gone. 100 Days has just passed and I have become very reflective as of late. After all, I am about to enter the workforce and adult life will hit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-wellness","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sarahjoseph.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}