I don't know when, but a day is gonna come...
I want to be a doctor.
Maybe I should start with that; it's the first story I told my adviser, and she bought it. Can you really "buy" the truth, though?
A tangent.
Shared experience, common memory, and proximity do not a friendship make. You can phone those in, you can fake it - proximity is ephemeral, memories are easily recycled, and novel experiences can be had every day. They don't actually matter, not in the slightest. Instead, it's the bond, the connection that transcends distance and reaches beyond matters of convenience, which is the vital component in any relationship. It's also the hardest to replace.
In fourteen days, I will be leaving St. Petersburg for over three months, to meet new people and to forget the old. I cannot wait to make new memories and gain new experiences with new friends in new locales. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll even forge a couple of those new "bonds" along the way. But there are a few people that I cannot, will not, replace.
Things may change; things are changing. I'm changing (the best evidence of which is the omission of the qualifier "trying to" that usually predicates any action on my part), maybe this could change too - here's hoping it's all for the better.
One thing won't change, though. I don't want a replacement.
We have two weeks to do everything.
Maybe I should start with that; it's the first story I told my adviser, and she bought it. Can you really "buy" the truth, though?
A tangent.
Shared experience, common memory, and proximity do not a friendship make. You can phone those in, you can fake it - proximity is ephemeral, memories are easily recycled, and novel experiences can be had every day. They don't actually matter, not in the slightest. Instead, it's the bond, the connection that transcends distance and reaches beyond matters of convenience, which is the vital component in any relationship. It's also the hardest to replace.
In fourteen days, I will be leaving St. Petersburg for over three months, to meet new people and to forget the old. I cannot wait to make new memories and gain new experiences with new friends in new locales. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll even forge a couple of those new "bonds" along the way. But there are a few people that I cannot, will not, replace.
Things may change; things are changing. I'm changing (the best evidence of which is the omission of the qualifier "trying to" that usually predicates any action on my part), maybe this could change too - here's hoping it's all for the better.
One thing won't change, though. I don't want a replacement.
We have two weeks to do everything.