Thursday, August 11, 2011

What if people started using their blogs like facebook? Posting only a couple of unnecessary lines? OMgoodness!

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Growing up summer

Usually my summer's are made up of watching endless cartoons, swimming, eating candy like it's nobody's business and slowly cooking in a house without air conditioning.  Now here I  am, one blink away from being 20, and I realize that this is my first summer as an adult.
Age, surprisingly, has very little to do with it; it's mostly about prioritizing.  Now I work 8 hours a day, talk to my coworkers about their kids, watch Criminal Minds, eat salad and worry about making ends meet for the coming school year.
I love it.  Being a kid is wonderful, but I love growing up and discovering that the 9th graders aren't incredibly wise and old.  I love being the one to look at the 5 year-olds thinking, "they're going to have so much fun in high school."
I read the news, I ponder often, and I worry about everyone else around me.  Halloween is fun, but I won't get that sinking feeling in my stomach once it's over.  The big kids on the block are now the ones getting their first grandchild.  I don't regret moving on from high school; it was a blast, but now it's over. 
God can see my life on a small storyboard, and as they years go on I am privileged to look back and see exactly what he was writing and why.  I have an unlimited amount of hesitation and vasillation, but I'll move forward because there's a pattern of things just getting better and better.