The Last Day

This will be my last entry from Charlottesville. In roughly 10 hours, I will be on my way to Blacksburg to start college. For some reason, I feel somewhat saddened about this. The thought hangs like a cloud over me. Perhaps because the world I once knew is at an end. From now on, I will have to look after myself, for nobody else will. I will have to put up with egotistical, uncaring professors, unfeeling bureaucrats, and all sorts of horrible people. My friends are lost to me, having either left a long time ago or started their new lives. I feel so alone anymore. I hope this doesn't continue through college.

I saw some of my school friends from the Academic Team today. They were meeting at the public library, going over what they were doing for next year. While it was great seeing them again, it made me realize that all of the life I had known for the past 13 years is going away. It disturbs me slightly.

Anyway, let this be a lesson to the rest of you: Live every moment as if it were your last. For whatever you have won't last forever. And you won't realize what you've missed until it's gone. I leave you now to ponder these words. I probably will post again in the next few days, after I'm settled.