Please remember me...
GRADUATION.
WHAT?!?!?!?!
We talk about it now. We talk about leaving here and being far away. We talk about how we don't ever want this to end. But we don't talk about what it's going to be like when we don't see each other everyday. How it'll be when our group can't get together for random parties on weekends or Friends marathons after school or impromptu pi day celebrations. No one says anything about how sad we'll be when we're all on our respective ends of the earth surrounded by strangers. We say - I'll miss you - and - please don't leave. But no one says - it's never going to be this way again. Why would we mention it when we all know that we'll just start crying and won't be able to stop? This is all ending - as good as it is - it's ending. We won't be like this anymore. We'll still get together on breaks and in the summer to draw with chalk or make Disney music videos, but we're all going to be changed - not too drastically I imagine - but we won't have been there the last however many months to witness the changes. We'll all have our completely individual experiences - that will, no doubt, make for some great stories - and things will be different. It'll still be good - we'll still be close - but we'll be close in a completely different way. This simplicity that we're experiencing right now will not be there. The comfort of knowing that a friend will be there tomorrow morning - as always - with a hug and an "I love you!" will be gone. Yes, we'll all make new amazing friends, but it'll take time for something like we've got here to grow. No one wants to talk about how we'll never be like this again. Starting June 16th, in 11 days, eleven days, ELEVEN DAYS, we're all off on our own adventures. It's still going to be great, it's just never going to be this.
Why is this so hard?
WHAT?!?!?!?!
We talk about it now. We talk about leaving here and being far away. We talk about how we don't ever want this to end. But we don't talk about what it's going to be like when we don't see each other everyday. How it'll be when our group can't get together for random parties on weekends or Friends marathons after school or impromptu pi day celebrations. No one says anything about how sad we'll be when we're all on our respective ends of the earth surrounded by strangers. We say - I'll miss you - and - please don't leave. But no one says - it's never going to be this way again. Why would we mention it when we all know that we'll just start crying and won't be able to stop? This is all ending - as good as it is - it's ending. We won't be like this anymore. We'll still get together on breaks and in the summer to draw with chalk or make Disney music videos, but we're all going to be changed - not too drastically I imagine - but we won't have been there the last however many months to witness the changes. We'll all have our completely individual experiences - that will, no doubt, make for some great stories - and things will be different. It'll still be good - we'll still be close - but we'll be close in a completely different way. This simplicity that we're experiencing right now will not be there. The comfort of knowing that a friend will be there tomorrow morning - as always - with a hug and an "I love you!" will be gone. Yes, we'll all make new amazing friends, but it'll take time for something like we've got here to grow. No one wants to talk about how we'll never be like this again. Starting June 16th, in 11 days, eleven days, ELEVEN DAYS, we're all off on our own adventures. It's still going to be great, it's just never going to be this.
Why is this so hard?