I remember as we were headed into the summer, I had a feeling. I distinctly remember Marjorie and I sitting on her balcony wrapped in blankets in the cool, spring air one night, saying, "This is going to be a good summer."
And it has been.
Yes, there are a few people, some of my best friends actually, who I have missed this summer. But I think this was one of those times where I really truly learned the meaning of the saying, "Life is what you make it."
I coulda had another summer like last year.... I could have sat around and been kind of anti-social and gone to bed early and cared only about working out because I was heartbroken and missing my best friends. But I didn't. I decided to keep going with what I've got and not think about what I was missing.
What made this summer so fun? I think it was just that first of all I had a great group of friends that I really enjoyed being with, no matter what we were doing. Whether we were doing something crazy, sitting by the pool, or just sitting in our oven temperature apartments. But it was also that we did do lots of crazy things. Here's a list of some of the awesome things we did this summer:
- tumbling gym
- elevator sardines in the Kimball tower
- visit ghost towns
- Manti pageant
- water polo
- push each other in the pool at least once every other week
- drive-in movie
- bonfires
- played with sugar gliders
- dirty dash
- tons of games at the park, day and night
- sleep outside
- look at the stars
- penguin slide down the hill in front of the periodical windows of the library
- nerf war
- volleyball
- rope swing at the pond in Mona
- go out to eat too much
- karaoke
- etc.
[While this has been a super great summer and I've loved almost every minute of it and the friendships that have come from it, I'm not completely sorry that it's coming to an end. All good things have to end, don't they? It's been grand, but I'm ready for change. I'm ready for something new. Will it be as great as Summer 2011? Not in the same way, no, but it can be great in it's own way. I've got a pretty good feeling about Fall 2011 too.]
I wrote that a week ago. That is not how I'm feeling today though.
Today was the last day of summer as I've known it. People are leaving. People are coming. Everything is changing.
Roman Gardens, though not who I've been paying my rent bill to, has still been home this summer. Two years. I've literally grown up in this place. I've learned and grown so much in the past two years. The experiences I've had here have shaped me into who I am today. I have to say good bye to this place for real, very soon.
In two weeks I am going to be living in a house with 4 of my friends. We are going to have to adjust to a brand new life. Everything will be new except our friendships with each other. New living situation. New ward. New friends. Then there's school. This is gonna be a crazy semester, probably for all of us. I am not looking forward to how busy and ridiculously hard it's going to be. There are tons of challenges that are going to go along with it that I don't even want to begin to discuss.
I hate this. As much as I thought I was ready for change, as I see it all changing around me I have decided I hate it. I want to rewind and have a redo of the last four months.
But alas, the time machine is not available to the public yet, so I've just gotta make do with what life's gonna give me. I've gotta change my attitude, I think. I keep thinking about all the negatives. Well you know what? There's tons of positives about all this too, right?
Ok, I just had to vent about that for a little bit. Let's get back to the main point of this post:
Summer 2011 is "a one to remember" as Forever the Sickest Kids so nicely put it.
It might be drawing to a close, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen and that what the future has in store for me won't be just as good, or even possibly better, right?
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