Life Savers

I have been so busy the past day and a half, and I just love being able to visit people, see new movies, sing my heart out, and eat too much fattening food. Is this how most teenagers live their lives?

I'm not used to hanging out with friends. We always lived too far away or my mom was sick or the house was too messy. Also, I just wasn't very fun to hang out with. My idea of a party was watching Beatles movies and braiding others' hair. People just didn't ask me over very often.

But in the past few months, I've been a freaking social butterfly (comparatively). My friends have reached out and invited me out in public, which is a bit of scary prospect. I've gone on a few dates. I've been sleeping all day and staying up all night. It is such a liberating feeling to have a schedule and prior commitments and to be all dressed up with somewhere to go for once. I am afraid of losing all this when I graduate as most of my friends will still be in high school, and I'll have a new life to build.

I guess I just have to be grateful for now. I'd just like to thank my drum majors for trying their best to help me prepare for the basketball game. I'd like to thank Caitlin and Makani for letting me eat ice cream and scream at the tv with them. I'd like to thank Sam for asking me to help with her science fair project and then to see Pitch Perfect with Allison and Maddie. I'd really like to thank Tony for putting together the best Yellowcard party and for him and Janelle singing with me. Y'all are all my best friends, and I couldn't have asked for a better senior year.

I could wish that I'd been here longer to love y'all, but I believe that everything leads up to now. Things happened the way they did so that this moment could be a perfect goodbye to my childhood and high school career. Y'all make me better, and y'all are the reason I am happy when everything else threatens to swallow me in sadness.

I really can't thank you enough.