You know when you've been expecting something to happen for quite some time and you think you're all prepared, but when it actually happens, for real, and in just the way people warned you for months, you're still taken by surprise? You went full steam ahead and into it, but had to slow down to take it all in. You had this whole idea about it but when it translated to reality, it was too overwhelming. Its as if all those words could not adequately describe a whole spectrum of emotion that you would experience. Some things you have just got to do head-on - and take with a "pinch of salt".
