Advice from a small town girl

I have a recurring dream.

I actually think of it as a nightmare, but it doesn’t feature monsters or murderers.

It features forgetting.

In the dream, I am sitting in the hallway of my college dormitory, playing cards with a group of my friends, when I suddenly realize that I have forgotten to go to my forestry final. A surge of adrenaline (or some equally uncomfortable biological substance) floods my body, and I know that I will never graduate.

The dream goes on for quite a while after that, and I usually wake believing that I no longer have a college degree.

Then I gradually remember and reali...