So this is growing up.
Life truly is strange.
I love when people pop back into your life out of the blue.
Talked to Mike Wood a few nights ago.
He and I dated the summer I turned 17, the summer before my senior year.
He truly was unlike anyone I had ever met before. Still is.
Looking at all the silly pictures of us I look truly happy, we both did.
God that seems so long ago.
I wonder what the 17 year-old me would think of who I am now.
I suppose there are pro's and con's to who I've become,
although I think my basic personality is the same- I have been through far too much to consider myself the same person, which obviously happens with growing older.
That summer I was still working at Lobster Hut, it was my last year before SSH.
I didn't have my divers license yet.
My room was still painted pink.
I didn't own a cell phone.
In many ways I lived up to the translation of my name. ('Purity')
I had not decided what I wanted to go to college for.
It was not even conceivable that I would not be friends with half the people that I was then, nor would I even stop to think that some of my classmates may die before they reached the age of twenty-one.
From what I can remember I primarily listened to Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World, Blink-182, NFG, Reggie and the Full Effect, the Starting Line, Finch, and Get Up Kids, among many other pop-punkish bands (and Leftout of course, haha.) I specifically remember listening to Boxcar Racer with Mike and going to see NFG with him in Worcester at the Palladium (I think I may have even seen Andy, Colby, and Brendan there...?) As well as hanging out at his house for band practices for reBirth.
Although I still listen to those bands those songs will never mean the same to me as they did then.
I did have Chuck at that time, (my goldfish) who is still alive and resides in my kitchen. And I of course still have all my old band tee-shirts, and many new ones as well.
I like who/what I've become for the most part, and believe that things truly do happen for a reason.
I'm excited and anxious for the future, and wonder what I'll be like in another 4 or 5 years.
Here's to more cherry cokes (as my brother once said), listening to new music and acquiring new band tee's, making new friends, experiencing new things, and living to my full potential.
Stop and think about what you were like when you were 17, what some of your favorite things were- (or if you are 17 now think how you may change)
Do you like what you see now?
Yeah this was lame, but it's what was on my mind.
I love when people pop back into your life out of the blue.
Talked to Mike Wood a few nights ago.
He and I dated the summer I turned 17, the summer before my senior year.
He truly was unlike anyone I had ever met before. Still is.
Looking at all the silly pictures of us I look truly happy, we both did.
God that seems so long ago.
I wonder what the 17 year-old me would think of who I am now.
I suppose there are pro's and con's to who I've become,
although I think my basic personality is the same- I have been through far too much to consider myself the same person, which obviously happens with growing older.
That summer I was still working at Lobster Hut, it was my last year before SSH.
I didn't have my divers license yet.
My room was still painted pink.
I didn't own a cell phone.
In many ways I lived up to the translation of my name. ('Purity')
I had not decided what I wanted to go to college for.
It was not even conceivable that I would not be friends with half the people that I was then, nor would I even stop to think that some of my classmates may die before they reached the age of twenty-one.
From what I can remember I primarily listened to Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World, Blink-182, NFG, Reggie and the Full Effect, the Starting Line, Finch, and Get Up Kids, among many other pop-punkish bands (and Leftout of course, haha.) I specifically remember listening to Boxcar Racer with Mike and going to see NFG with him in Worcester at the Palladium (I think I may have even seen Andy, Colby, and Brendan there...?) As well as hanging out at his house for band practices for reBirth.
Although I still listen to those bands those songs will never mean the same to me as they did then.
I did have Chuck at that time, (my goldfish) who is still alive and resides in my kitchen. And I of course still have all my old band tee-shirts, and many new ones as well.
I like who/what I've become for the most part, and believe that things truly do happen for a reason.
I'm excited and anxious for the future, and wonder what I'll be like in another 4 or 5 years.
Here's to more cherry cokes (as my brother once said), listening to new music and acquiring new band tee's, making new friends, experiencing new things, and living to my full potential.
Stop and think about what you were like when you were 17, what some of your favorite things were- (or if you are 17 now think how you may change)
Do you like what you see now?
Yeah this was lame, but it's what was on my mind.