Inspirational Thoughts on Leaving in 1 Month (since everyone else seems to be posting theirs lol)
A few really great quotes I found that basically sum up my feelings better than I could even write them originally:
"As you go through the days of your life, busy with all the responsibilities the world has placed upon you, remember to keep the truly special things in mind: Keep things in perspective: work, play, learning, living. Have happiness as a part of your poriorities! Be creative and aware and wonderfully alive. Work hard, but your life would love for you to be as involved in their everyday passages as you can possibly be. If you can accomplish that, if you can always remember where to find your smile, and if you can stay close to the people who are at the center of your life, you have already traveled a very long way on the road to success." --Douglas Pagels
"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten... These are the things I learned: Share everything * Play fair * Don't hit people * Put things back where you found them * Clean up your own mess * Don't take things that aren't yours * Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody * Wash your hands before you eat * Flush * Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you * Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some * Take a nap every afternoon * When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together * Be aware of wonder * Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that * Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup--they all die * So do we * Remember that a little love goes a long way * Remember that a lot goes forever * Remember that friendship is a wise investment * Life's treasures are people... together * Realize that it's never too late * Stay in touch with those who touch your life with love * Take the time to wish upon a star * And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books, and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--LOOK * Everything you need to know is in there somewhere." --Authors unknown
And now from me. Yes, I'm excited about my future. Omg, I'm excited about my future! Sometimes I'd like to fastforward and see myself in thirty years. Sometimes I'd like to rewind and fix mistakes so I could make myself perfect in thirty years. But that'll never happen, and I have got to accept that. Guilt is no way to live a life, and that's precisely what I've learned most through all my years at SMI, Lynch, and then your favorite and mine, AHS. Every time I make a new friend that I really, sincerely care about, I hold onto them a little better and love them a little more. I have a few people I've met in high school now that I don't plan to lose. And God only knows how good I'll have become by the time I get to Keuka next month and learn to hold onto those people even better! But this is obviously not for them. This is for those people I've loved in high school: I love you guys all so much! I can't imagine what my life would have been like without you!! You know who you are, and thank you. And I also have to say that if any of you think you're gonna have to say goodbye to me forever, boy are you in for a shock! I'll be back on Holidays, I'll IM you or call one of ya at least once a week, I'll invite you to my wedding (and if you're really lucky, you might just be in my wedding), I'll be back to sit in the church pew at YOUR weddings (even if I wasn't invited!), I'll toast to your future if I'm drunk enough, I'll bring my kids to visit and play outside with yours at least once a year while we sit on your porch and watch them grow into exact replicas of ourselves (no matter WHERE in the world you'll be living), I'll bring them more often if you're living closer, I'll take you with me on trips around the world when we're old and senile and we can both make fun of our aging selves without having to feel judged, and when we're reeeeally reeeeeeally old... Well, that's the time when we'll need each other most... to get out of denial and face what's coming with an old friend, to share and reflect on memories the other may not remember, and to have someone to talk to that isn't going to humor you like you're a child that needs its diaper changed and things will explained to you when you're older. I can't wait for Keuka, to make more friends like you guys. But I will never really leave you. Even if you move to Australia, live in an underground hideout and send me hate letters to stop contacting you. Haha. It's too late for that now!
I love you!
"As you go through the days of your life, busy with all the responsibilities the world has placed upon you, remember to keep the truly special things in mind: Keep things in perspective: work, play, learning, living. Have happiness as a part of your poriorities! Be creative and aware and wonderfully alive. Work hard, but your life would love for you to be as involved in their everyday passages as you can possibly be. If you can accomplish that, if you can always remember where to find your smile, and if you can stay close to the people who are at the center of your life, you have already traveled a very long way on the road to success." --Douglas Pagels
"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten... These are the things I learned: Share everything * Play fair * Don't hit people * Put things back where you found them * Clean up your own mess * Don't take things that aren't yours * Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody * Wash your hands before you eat * Flush * Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you * Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some * Take a nap every afternoon * When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together * Be aware of wonder * Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that * Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup--they all die * So do we * Remember that a little love goes a long way * Remember that a lot goes forever * Remember that friendship is a wise investment * Life's treasures are people... together * Realize that it's never too late * Stay in touch with those who touch your life with love * Take the time to wish upon a star * And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books, and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--LOOK * Everything you need to know is in there somewhere." --Authors unknown
And now from me. Yes, I'm excited about my future. Omg, I'm excited about my future! Sometimes I'd like to fastforward and see myself in thirty years. Sometimes I'd like to rewind and fix mistakes so I could make myself perfect in thirty years. But that'll never happen, and I have got to accept that. Guilt is no way to live a life, and that's precisely what I've learned most through all my years at SMI, Lynch, and then your favorite and mine, AHS. Every time I make a new friend that I really, sincerely care about, I hold onto them a little better and love them a little more. I have a few people I've met in high school now that I don't plan to lose. And God only knows how good I'll have become by the time I get to Keuka next month and learn to hold onto those people even better! But this is obviously not for them. This is for those people I've loved in high school: I love you guys all so much! I can't imagine what my life would have been like without you!! You know who you are, and thank you. And I also have to say that if any of you think you're gonna have to say goodbye to me forever, boy are you in for a shock! I'll be back on Holidays, I'll IM you or call one of ya at least once a week, I'll invite you to my wedding (and if you're really lucky, you might just be in my wedding), I'll be back to sit in the church pew at YOUR weddings (even if I wasn't invited!), I'll toast to your future if I'm drunk enough, I'll bring my kids to visit and play outside with yours at least once a year while we sit on your porch and watch them grow into exact replicas of ourselves (no matter WHERE in the world you'll be living), I'll bring them more often if you're living closer, I'll take you with me on trips around the world when we're old and senile and we can both make fun of our aging selves without having to feel judged, and when we're reeeeally reeeeeeally old... Well, that's the time when we'll need each other most... to get out of denial and face what's coming with an old friend, to share and reflect on memories the other may not remember, and to have someone to talk to that isn't going to humor you like you're a child that needs its diaper changed and things will explained to you when you're older. I can't wait for Keuka, to make more friends like you guys. But I will never really leave you. Even if you move to Australia, live in an underground hideout and send me hate letters to stop contacting you. Haha. It's too late for that now!
I love you!