So summer is almost over. Where has the time gone? It seems like only a few days ago I graduated.
Graduated from high school.
It was so weird. But also so much fun. I got to stand up there with some of my closest friends, and take our diplomas and look forward to our lives. It was emotional. There where lots of tears, and laughs. Our speaker was amazing, and the fact that he had been one of our teachers for two years made it even better. It was an incredible night.
Since I've moved around my whole life-thanks to being a navy brat- I usually didn't stay in one school for very long. We always moved from one place to another every 2-3 years. And what made it worse was that we always moved during Christmas break. Which meant, I was always the new kid who came to school in the middle of the year. By then, everyone had their group of friends, and knew their way around school. I hated being new in the middle of the year. But I would eventually make friends, and they would be my friends until we moved somewhere else. Then, for a few months, we would stay in touch, but eventually our friendship would be nothing more than a childhood memory.
Now, there are a few people I am still friends with, even with all the moving, but not many. My whole life was going from one place to the next. And although it was hard, and emotional, I'm still grateful for it. I've gotten to see so many places, meet so many people, have so many experiences. It's made me who I am, and I've learned a lot.
I moved here to Virginia nearly 7 years ago, thats the loongest I've ever lived in one place. So I've had the chance to build strong, long lasting relationships with people here. I love it. I've gotten to see people grow, physically, mentally, and spiritually. This is a place I can call home. So the kids I got to graduate with, I was blessed in that I hadn't just known them a few short years, like every other school I'd attended, but I had known a lot of them since middle school. We had sort of grown-up together. So embarking on that big step of being done with high school, and moving forward to whatever, was a big thing for me.
I haven't gotten to see but a few of them since summer started, which is a shame since a lot of those kids are some of my best friends, or at least, "where" some of my best friends if we aren't as close any more as we used to be. But, even if we do lose touch, I'm still so so so so so grateful for them. Those kids where a huge blessing in my life, and I will never forget them-not to sound cheesy or anything. Now with summer being almost over, we're all going to be busy with college, for those of us who are going, or work, or other things. We may drift apart, we may become super close again. Either way, I'll always love them, and be grateful for them.
Because they made me laugh-a lot. We talked about God-a lot. We cried together at times. We talked about nearly everything. We suffered through bad grades together. We had to stay up all night doing annoying projects. We had exam study sessions. We had to deal with the embarrasing moments of graduation, like walking down the isle and emotional parents, and baby pictures.
And plus, class of 2010 is the coolest year ever. :]
