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it's always amazing when you can sit on the phone with someone and think about what you were like when you were young and what you thought you would become and be able to say with a smile "Hot Damn! I was right!"
In my freshman year of high school i had 3 best friends. and they were amazing. Claire (the bubbly rational mother-type), Ashley (the lover), and Collette (the crazy fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants rebel), and then there was me... driven and completely out of my mind. Thinking to the future I thought in 5 years Claire would be studying hard and in a long term relationship. Collette would be our very own Thelma and Louise, off doing God knows what, Ashley would be married, and I would be on the track to Senatorship. The most important factor of our prediction was that we would all still be friends, not just in theory but the kind that you could call up at a moments notice and spill your guts to.
An actual 5 years later...
Claire is currently in her 2nd year of a relationship with the father of her 7 month little girl, and jsut about to go back to school.
Collette is bouncing around California and we hardely hear from her.
Ashley is engaged and we'll all be attending her wedding in the Spring.
I am not nearly as driven as i would have hoped but I'm still atleast paralleling the road to the Senate.
The most important part... when Ashley walks down the aisle, she'll be walking past Claire, Collette, and I in the pews. And when Claire takes the walk in a few years we'll be there. And when I find my name on the ballot as the Democratic nominee... I know they'll be the first ones to the polls.
We may not have predicted to a T what our lives would be in 5 years... but damn if we weren't close. Now if only our new 5 year plan pans out... well then... we will be in GOOD SHAPE!
In my freshman year of high school i had 3 best friends. and they were amazing. Claire (the bubbly rational mother-type), Ashley (the lover), and Collette (the crazy fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants rebel), and then there was me... driven and completely out of my mind. Thinking to the future I thought in 5 years Claire would be studying hard and in a long term relationship. Collette would be our very own Thelma and Louise, off doing God knows what, Ashley would be married, and I would be on the track to Senatorship. The most important factor of our prediction was that we would all still be friends, not just in theory but the kind that you could call up at a moments notice and spill your guts to.
An actual 5 years later...
Claire is currently in her 2nd year of a relationship with the father of her 7 month little girl, and jsut about to go back to school.
Collette is bouncing around California and we hardely hear from her.
Ashley is engaged and we'll all be attending her wedding in the Spring.
I am not nearly as driven as i would have hoped but I'm still atleast paralleling the road to the Senate.
The most important part... when Ashley walks down the aisle, she'll be walking past Claire, Collette, and I in the pews. And when Claire takes the walk in a few years we'll be there. And when I find my name on the ballot as the Democratic nominee... I know they'll be the first ones to the polls.
We may not have predicted to a T what our lives would be in 5 years... but damn if we weren't close. Now if only our new 5 year plan pans out... well then... we will be in GOOD SHAPE!