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A new stage

Bittersweet.

 I'm entering a new stage of my life.

 "That's funny," you say. "You entered it six months ago. Has it taken you this long to figure out?" Hey. Don't mock me. Things take me a long time. 

 Well guys, I'm in college (though not for much longer). Though I still love my friends from "my past" deeply, from the bottom of my soul; though they are still the dearest of all my friends; Though I wish I could spend every day with them; Though they are still the people that know my heart the best; I can't spend as much time with them.

 I love my friends from college. They are such wonderful, beautiful people. But it takes me a long time and a lot of time to truly connect with people. 

 And soon I'm going home.

 Soon I'll be back in York, Pennsylvania. Most of my friends will leave on their missions a month or two after I arrive. Many of the rest are no longer in the state for one reason or another. And 100% of the remaining ones will be in school. I will be working. And studying. 

 I have a sense that I'm going to be a little bit alone. And as dearly as I miss and will continue to miss College Leadership days, with Simmy and Mandy and Aaron and JJ and Andrew and everyone... those days aren't coming back. We're growing up. We're getting busier. And it's sad. But I guess it's gotta happen. 

 I'm spending not even a month and a half more here. Then I'm going home, and I'm going to work and study and dream and long. And then I'm going on a mission, which is apparently a really fulfilling lifestyle, but also, I imagine,  an especially disconnected and temporary lifestyle. And then I'm coming back here and starting over fresh: nobody that I know will be here still, or if they are, they'll be in a totally different place than they are right now. Basically, I'm choosing to completely skip a year and a half of life. 

 That's crazy.

 It's a good thing I love God.

 When I come back, I'm making a fresh start. A start on the rest of my life. When I get back, I'll be working on my dreams for real, with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING standing between me and the things I've been planning.

 Travel.
Marriage.
Motherhood.
Life mission.

 I'm so close I can nearly taste it. 

 But it's not quite that close...

 I'm going home in a month.
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  1. KimberlyJune 20, 2014 at 5:02 PM

    Awwww...I miss those CL days too....but at the same time...I've come to accep the fact that life is making us all take different roads. #sadday But it's a good thing too, I think. Anyway. I love your face. <3

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    1. KimberlyJune 20, 2014 at 5:02 PM

      ...that moment when you can't edit a comment to fix a typo. ;) **is doing that here**

      *accept

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    2. CatherineJune 20, 2014 at 10:36 PM

      You just verbalized something I've been really wrestling with for a year or two now: different roads. I think I really need an entire blog post about that, haha. Anyway. I love you too, quite a great deal, and I think you're lovely. <333

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