Came across this on r/getmotivated.
It took me 7 years to decide to go to graduate school, and it will take me 3 more years to meet my end goal. This time last year I was looking up schools and still ambivalent about the whole thing, now I am on the home stretch of my first semester. A long way to go but the journey is the reward. Cheers to those thinking about, desiring to, and taking the next step!