Changed for good
I miss my friends already, and it's only been a week and a day! Everything reminds me of them. It's the little things, for example...
I hear "beautiful soul" on the radio or on Itunes and think about all the times Meg and I serenaded each other with this song: like at the Thayer st. candy store, the Freshman snowball, the busrides to and from the snowball, and all the completely random times in 215, when I would just randomly bust out singing or put the lyrics as my away msg, only to have meg yell "you bitch!" (out of love, of course!)
or...
I get an IM from vimala saying "GORCOW!!!!" and think of all the times that girl came stumbling drunk into our room to tell me how much she loved me. (I am told that when she was really drunk she used 2 do impressions of me and talk about me nonstop, I'm flattered!) I crack up every time I think about playing softball against her, her coming in and waking me up from the living dead at 1am, or telling me how much she loved pugs! Meg and I once talked about people w/ intense personalities, and I think Vim wins the award for most intense!
or...
The other day while sorting through lego instructions I found some instruction thing written in like 10 languages, and I saw the japanese writing and thought about steve and our AMAZING ams dream team project about Tokyo Disneyland last semester. That was such a fun project, and I think what I'll remember most is not the statistics about the Japanese tourist industry or what rides are in that theme park, but how steve and i went from being two random people on the ripta to becoming like brother and sister!
or...
I was reading about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (my new FAVORITE COUPLE!!) and their Rome vacation, and I thought about my Roman holiday this past year with Jamie, Kate, Katie, Jackie, Stuart, Tonino, Stevey-boy, Dr. Tkacik, and all the others! It was amazing, a lifechanging experience I'll never forget!
or...
I went to put away some random college stuff today and found Apples to Apples. I instantly thought, not only of my CHS gals (especially molly, who introduced me 2 the wonderful game!), but of Ali, Becky, Alison, Chris, Beth, Jenn, Jamie and all my fellow Apples 2 Applers!
I was talking to one of my friends day about our first year of college, and how much we feel that we have changed. I think that I have matured so much, and that became so obvious when I went back to Cathedral the other night to sing with the choir and other alumni for the final song. Being up on that stage, listening to all these high schoolers whine about their problems, I was just like "gosh, either they have gotten immature or i'm just growing up" I even feel that way when reading the magazines I still have subscriptions to, like Seventeen and Cosmogirl and all those kinds of magazines. I used to want to write for one someday, but now I have finally grown up: I look through them and am just like "wow, these are so shallow!" I'm all for them for an escape once in awhile (trust me, we all need a lil cosmo in our lives!) but still.
At the concert, my friends Kelly and Angie sang this song that I think fits this appropriately...
"I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
And none of it seems to matter anymore
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
I do believe I have been changed for the better
Because I knew you:
I have been changed for good."
Please add your comments for your fave moments from this year, or how you feel you've changed!
I hear "beautiful soul" on the radio or on Itunes and think about all the times Meg and I serenaded each other with this song: like at the Thayer st. candy store, the Freshman snowball, the busrides to and from the snowball, and all the completely random times in 215, when I would just randomly bust out singing or put the lyrics as my away msg, only to have meg yell "you bitch!" (out of love, of course!)
or...
I get an IM from vimala saying "GORCOW!!!!" and think of all the times that girl came stumbling drunk into our room to tell me how much she loved me. (I am told that when she was really drunk she used 2 do impressions of me and talk about me nonstop, I'm flattered!) I crack up every time I think about playing softball against her, her coming in and waking me up from the living dead at 1am, or telling me how much she loved pugs! Meg and I once talked about people w/ intense personalities, and I think Vim wins the award for most intense!
or...
The other day while sorting through lego instructions I found some instruction thing written in like 10 languages, and I saw the japanese writing and thought about steve and our AMAZING ams dream team project about Tokyo Disneyland last semester. That was such a fun project, and I think what I'll remember most is not the statistics about the Japanese tourist industry or what rides are in that theme park, but how steve and i went from being two random people on the ripta to becoming like brother and sister!
or...
I was reading about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (my new FAVORITE COUPLE!!) and their Rome vacation, and I thought about my Roman holiday this past year with Jamie, Kate, Katie, Jackie, Stuart, Tonino, Stevey-boy, Dr. Tkacik, and all the others! It was amazing, a lifechanging experience I'll never forget!
or...
I went to put away some random college stuff today and found Apples to Apples. I instantly thought, not only of my CHS gals (especially molly, who introduced me 2 the wonderful game!), but of Ali, Becky, Alison, Chris, Beth, Jenn, Jamie and all my fellow Apples 2 Applers!
I was talking to one of my friends day about our first year of college, and how much we feel that we have changed. I think that I have matured so much, and that became so obvious when I went back to Cathedral the other night to sing with the choir and other alumni for the final song. Being up on that stage, listening to all these high schoolers whine about their problems, I was just like "gosh, either they have gotten immature or i'm just growing up" I even feel that way when reading the magazines I still have subscriptions to, like Seventeen and Cosmogirl and all those kinds of magazines. I used to want to write for one someday, but now I have finally grown up: I look through them and am just like "wow, these are so shallow!" I'm all for them for an escape once in awhile (trust me, we all need a lil cosmo in our lives!) but still.
At the concert, my friends Kelly and Angie sang this song that I think fits this appropriately...
"I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
And none of it seems to matter anymore
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
I do believe I have been changed for the better
Because I knew you:
I have been changed for good."
Please add your comments for your fave moments from this year, or how you feel you've changed!