We’ll say today is a day filled with reflection and old ways. This title began when I went with my best friend since kindergarten to Walmart where we spotted Doritos, and memories began to flood our older, more sophisticated brains. As kids, whenever I would go to her house to spend the night, we would stop by Albertsons and pick up a 2 liter bottle of root beer and 3-D Doritios. We would dip them into the root beer, drink out of them, and eat them, soggy. WE LOVED DOING IT. Then directly after that, we began to discuss college, and what we would do with our oh so eventful and baby lives. She began to tell me how she didn’t want to go to a university; that she wasn’t ready to leave, and take her SAT ’s and all of the other goodies that come with the joys and fears of applying, getting ready for and then GOING to college. She has yet to tell anyone because she is mortified of the disappoint they will have in her. She is a tough position. If I ever told my parents I wasn’t going to college, I would be kicked out. However, I feel that I am entirely and completely ready to meet new and exciting people and to explore a new, uncharted territory and just leave Palmdale. I am surely more mature than many of classmates, and feel that now more than ever I am entirely ready. I went on to tell her though, that our society has this cookie cutter idea that people go to college right after college. Not everyone is emotionally, mentally or maybe academically for college at 17 or 18, and that people need to go when they feel ready to do so. Also, Katey had applied to Del Taco and has a second interview this week. She is not sitting on her tucus, doing absolutely nothing relying on her dear old mommy and daddy. I respect kids that do what Katey is doing. Not everyone is ready to go right now, and that is okay, just don’t be lazy and sit on your bum didily dum.
Another very exciting reason to make today’s theme reflection is my little-big bro is going to get his driver’s license today!!! The most exciting part about this is that I don’t have to drive him to Mars and back everyday!! I must admit, he is a not-so-great driver in my eyes, but hopefully the DMV lady driving with him today is not seeing through my eyes. So with all the prayers I have prayed and all the body parts I have crossed, Will, your big sis is rootin’ for ya!!
The very tragic way I came up with the theme for today, is filling out my LAAAAAAAAAAAAME CAS reflection forms. How appropriate. It’s not that they are extremely difficult, it’s just that they are extremely time consuming. I was doing really good, and on a roll until I got to my CCA form. CCAing has changed my life more than I ever imagined it. When the form asks, “What was the outcome of the activity?” It was great, it changed my life, I love the kids, the kids love me, I feel like myself up there. I discovered God in a new light, and really challenged my faith and who I was. Now can I put that in my form? Sure. If I want them to not count my hours. So I just put a stupid, lifeless, false answer that will get me my stupid piece of paper that justifies “how hard I have worked.” I love that to tell myself that I have worked hard, I need a piece of paper, in which a tree was killed during the process of making it. Oh, Life. So, I end this rambling blog, pondering life, and all of the memories I have shared with the amazing people God has put into my life.
