Changes

Day 3.

I think the biggest lesson high school taught me was that people change. People change their attitudes, their clothes, their beliefs, their friends, their opinions. They graduate with the prospect of changing their lives. High school is a time for change and growth. Unfortunately, it felt like it was only the people around me who were changing. I always felt that I was staying the same while the people I knew at one point became people I didn’t know at all. I felt that I was growing apart from all the people who had been important.

Maybe this is how we are all able to make that transition to college, or wherever we go after high school. It’s sad to leave some things behind, but one thing I’ve realized this semester is how few people I’ve actually missed. Sounds terrible, but it’s true.

Tonight, one of the friends I have known for all my life (we’ve been friends since we were about 3 years old) is coming to visit me. We are going to a Reik concert. Reik is a Mexican band we fell in love with when we first started listening to Spanish songs in our Spanish class...Our last years of high school we didn’t see each other as much and weren’t as close. Yet, she is one of only a couple of people who have come to see me this year. People change, but the people who are really supposed to be in your life, will continue to be there. Even if it takes a random Mexican band to make that happen. :)

Change is a thing that many people fear. Just as I fear that since CJ Wilson (lefty pitcher for the Texas Rangers) is leaving us for the Angels, the Rangers won’t ever be the same. And they won’t be the same team, but it happens. Change is present in all aspects of our life. Sometimes sad, sometimes wonderful, sometimes bittersweet, but always there.

So I’ll look forward to the changes that will come and the concert tonight, As the Clock Ticks…