Friends

Going to college allows you to meet new people and grow as a person, even if you don't realize it, you change. I always thought of this as a good thing. Except, now during the summer when I am home and I see how my dear friends from high school have also changed. I am often dissappointed by the fact that my friends are not the same. I know that I am not the same either, or maybe time away from each other has just helped us to seeeach other more clearly. I try to get to know the person they have become. But what happens when you are not sure that you like what you see--when the changes aren't for the better?

And then you wonder: Do other people have that reaction to me?

A beginning

I have kept a journal intermittently throughout most of my life. I like to write, and I seem to spend most of my day in my own head thinking, or reading, or dreaming. Sometimes, I feel like it just gets too cluttered up there--so here is my solution. Someplace where I can just "put thoughts on paper." Here I go...