I'm not even sure how I should be reacting. I'm spending the night at my grandparents' house, so that doesn't seem so weird, but tomorrow things are going to start to get crazy. Where did my summer go? [Yes, I spent a significant part of it in Europe, but still.] How didn't I get to spend time with all of my friends? Why, oh why, does Tempe, AZ have to be so far away from home?
Yeah, yeah, it was my choice to go to school in Arizona, but I wasn't counting on missing my friends this badly (when I'm not even there yet). I miss my brother, I miss the most important guy in my life, I miss my band family, I miss my biological family. It's a little insane already, and I have yet to do anything like move in.
In addition, while I'm excited about seeing my handful of new friends, I'm a little nervous about meeting a bunch of new people. While I'd be perfectly content to crawl under my academic rock until the middle of May, I have a sinking feeling that my new friends will be dragging me out to socialize.
Should I stick out my neck, or retreat into my dorm and hide? Thoughts?
Love you all,
Megan
Relationships are terrifying, beautiful, precious, and dangerous things. I think too rarely do we realize the value of them until something separates us, or diminish the importance of new friendships until we discover them, at which point we begin to wonder what our lives were like before that person came along. Better to hurt and to heal than to be numb.
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