Episode 34: Senior Chapel Talks by Bridget Lynch and Entong "Jessica" Zhou '19

In her #SeniorChapelTalk, Bridget Lynch spoke about being truly reckless–finding uninhibited creation. Her reckless moment happened while daydreaming under a tree in the southwest one summer. As humans, we tend to want to be comfortable, content and satisfied...we stray away from walking along the edge of life, experiencing new adventures and taking risks. We gravitate toward the center and stay there, tethered. But we become accustomed to the beauty when we're in the center, it becomes mundane and dull. "I thought that I wasn't enough," she said in describing herself before that moment of recklessness, her life dulled by remaining in the center. Part of being reckless is realizing that part of life is attaining satisfaction for yourself; knowing that you are enough. In that moment, she learned to let go of self doubt and self-imposed barriers and found genuine happiness. She found spontaneity and the ability to walk along the edge again, and encouraged the community to "explore the limits of this limitless universe."

In her #SeniorChapelTalk, Entong “Jessica” Zhou shared some of her struggles as an awkward teenager. She laughed about being confused when she arrived in America from China for 8th grade and discovered everyone was asking her the same question, “Hey what’s up?” All she could think was, ‘the sky’ and what an odd question it was. The awkward moments made her miss and appreciate home, but she told herself things would get better and that it just needed time. Over the next year, however, an old childhood friend passed away and her grandmother was starting to lose her memory. What time taught her was that every moment in life is precious. When it’s hard to keep going, she said, “stop for a while and look back at those best memories…they will keep you moving forward.”