Closing Time...
...Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end...
Here it is. The end of senior year, the end of high school, the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine.
I've been so sad. I've never been good at this game. Saying good-bye has always been one of the most difficult things for me. My best friend in the entire world is moving across the country a close second to best friend is doing the same thing, as well as a very good friend. I've been crying left and right because people are leaving. I feel the commotion of everybody being ripped away and leaving me uprooted...but it has set in that if I'm not uprooted, I'll never replant and grow to my potential.
To every single person I have encountered in the last four years:
Whether you know it or not, you have made a difference in my life. I have learned from you all. Positive or negative, my life has been changed. You have made me who I am. Some have obviously had more to do with it, some less...but there are no small parts, just small actors. I thank you all. Thank you Danielle and JD for being there in the beginning, driving me to insanity, and being the only ones to drive me back. I love you guys so much. Tristan, thanks for pointing in the direction where you lived. It was a great walk. To the rest of my astounding friends who I may never see again, thank you for coming into contact with me, if even just for a moment.
I started out with a dream shared with my friends. The Broadway dream. Slowly, they've found their other callings and I've been feeling lost and doubting. What if I'm not cut out to act? What if I don't have what it takes? It was the most stinging slap in the face I could imagine. It hurt...but what else could I do? Thinking about this hurt more. Because nothing comes close. I know I may not make it...I might not come close. I don't care. I will act. I will sing. You couldn't pay me not to. I probably won't be getting paid anyway. I don't care. Nothing is more fulfilling. Thank you all for bringing this out in me. I realize now it's good you found your real loves, because this dream is too big to share.
We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams
It's been a wild ride...and although the roller coaster is coming to a stop, it's only so we can get off the kiddie coaster and go to the big one. Bring on the thrills.
Here it is. The end of senior year, the end of high school, the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine.
I've been so sad. I've never been good at this game. Saying good-bye has always been one of the most difficult things for me. My best friend in the entire world is moving across the country a close second to best friend is doing the same thing, as well as a very good friend. I've been crying left and right because people are leaving. I feel the commotion of everybody being ripped away and leaving me uprooted...but it has set in that if I'm not uprooted, I'll never replant and grow to my potential.
To every single person I have encountered in the last four years:
Whether you know it or not, you have made a difference in my life. I have learned from you all. Positive or negative, my life has been changed. You have made me who I am. Some have obviously had more to do with it, some less...but there are no small parts, just small actors. I thank you all. Thank you Danielle and JD for being there in the beginning, driving me to insanity, and being the only ones to drive me back. I love you guys so much. Tristan, thanks for pointing in the direction where you lived. It was a great walk. To the rest of my astounding friends who I may never see again, thank you for coming into contact with me, if even just for a moment.
I started out with a dream shared with my friends. The Broadway dream. Slowly, they've found their other callings and I've been feeling lost and doubting. What if I'm not cut out to act? What if I don't have what it takes? It was the most stinging slap in the face I could imagine. It hurt...but what else could I do? Thinking about this hurt more. Because nothing comes close. I know I may not make it...I might not come close. I don't care. I will act. I will sing. You couldn't pay me not to. I probably won't be getting paid anyway. I don't care. Nothing is more fulfilling. Thank you all for bringing this out in me. I realize now it's good you found your real loves, because this dream is too big to share.
We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams
It's been a wild ride...and although the roller coaster is coming to a stop, it's only so we can get off the kiddie coaster and go to the big one. Bring on the thrills.