365 days ago

365 days ago I told myself that something big would happen in the coming year. However, as I reconnected with an old friend the other night and found myself with little to say about "how my life has been" lately, I realized that it's not the "big" things that we notice. The little things are the things I remember. I graduated high school and began my college career in 2009. That doesn't seem like much to me. It just sort of happened, there were parties and gifts, but I feel like those are such mundane events in human life that nearly everyone sees them. It's not just reflecting on 2009, but a vast part of the "2000's" thus far.

Ditching the senior picnic, having all nighters playing dominoes in my new dorm room, getting drunk for the first time, sneaking out just to go to taco bell, kissing behind the shed so we wouldn't get caught, making cookies at sonic, puttputt golf everyday, vacations with those who mean most, my last moments with family members: these are the things I remember, relish, and want to talk about. Things that you had to be there for. Small things over the last few years of my life. My new friends, my old friends, and my future friends, I just want to say thank you for making my life what it is.