Turtle Shell

   The more people want to talk to me about my future the more I wish I was a turtle. Turtles have the amazing ability to hide from their fear inside a one of a kind shell of body armor, and that's all I want to do right now. I don't want to play adult right now,  I don't want to think of what's to come, and I don't want to talk about it to anyone. I just want to run away. I can't bring myself to do any kind of running though,  physical or metaphorical (thanks knee surgery), so I pretend that I'm thrilled to talk about my future.
   I will admit though that sometimes future talk makes me feel pretty good. Today, and almost everyday that this one nurse is the hospital's rapid response nurse, I was pulled aside and given a pep talk about what an amazing nurse I will be and how I was born for the Intensive Care Unit. Now, it's funny, the moment I decided nursing was my future I decided the ICU department was to be apart of that future. It was something I kept to myself, until recently, and never really thought anyone took notice to me. But I was wrong. So, instead of taking the compliment, I went and asked everyone working if that nurse has ever done that to them. Turns out he doesn't. So I asked him if he was serious about what he has had told me everyday we have worked together for the past  two and a half years.
   This girl is born to work ICU! Turns out, I'm quite the topic there, all the ICU nurses I know believe that I am born to be in that'd department, a few of them even stated they're counting the days until I'm out of nursing school. Now I'm starting to as well.