I've started a new job, working with new people. That means a whole new set of people who will have to figure out what made me the way I am. That means a whole new set of people who will have questions that I don't want to answer. That means a whole new set of people to whom I will have to act like I get their 70s-90s pop culture references.
This gets old so fast.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
The One Where I Leave the Cornfields
As I prepare to say goodbye to the people with whom I've spent the majority of my free time for the last three years, I am struck with a mix of emotions. On the one hand, I'm excited to go out and start my life for real. But on the other hand, I don't want to say goodbye to these people or this school. We've grown so close in the last few years. Late nights writing papers or studying for tests together, only fueled by coffee. Bonfires that went into the early hours of the morning. Studying together at the coffee shops in town for hours on end. Wal-mart runs because we have nothing better (that we want) to do. Parking in the school cafeteria during finals week so we can have unlimited pop and ice cream all day long. Blowing off steam during finals week by putting on fake tramp stamps. Running a half marathon this year. Cookouts where the guys end up running off into the woods and playing in creeks that they are so not supposed to be in.
We have grown so much together over the last four years. We have become real adults. Some of us are getting married. Some of us are moving far away from anything we've ever known. All of us are saying goodbye.
I know that these goodbyes are only until the first round of weddings this summer, but our relationships will never be the same after Saturday. We will inevitably drift apart, get married, have families, build lives where we hardly even think about our college friends. I don't want that to happen, but I know there's nothing I can do to avoid it.
If I were a crier, I would be a blubbering mess right now and for the next three days.
We have grown so much together over the last four years. We have become real adults. Some of us are getting married. Some of us are moving far away from anything we've ever known. All of us are saying goodbye.
I know that these goodbyes are only until the first round of weddings this summer, but our relationships will never be the same after Saturday. We will inevitably drift apart, get married, have families, build lives where we hardly even think about our college friends. I don't want that to happen, but I know there's nothing I can do to avoid it.
If I were a crier, I would be a blubbering mess right now and for the next three days.
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