This is a weird time in my life. Late nights out and early mornings, reminicising and missing old friends lost somewhere in the bodies of people I no longer recognise, more time than I know what to do with coupled with an intense feeling that the months have passed too quickly. It's been days of watching people go through the rites of passages of growing up and talking to people I've never known as well as I should have.I could wax lyrical forever about the romance of living the last summer as an official teenager.

The truth is change has always been overwhelming for me. It is however, most overwhelmimg when I feel the people around me change while I am the same person I was in the previous phase of life. People talk about how with time we all adapt to the environment and the situations we're in. I don't think that's really true. Feeling that a place is familiar and comfortable, I could feel nostalgic about it even, but I might not call it home. I've left too many institutions feeling that way.

Maybe this season of life will prove to be different. University with its promises of new experiences, difficulties and more late nights is enticing no doubt. It's mind-boggling to think about all the amazing people I've yet to meet and contemplate the influence they'll have on me that my imagination can't conceive right now.

Here's to the future, with it's promise of unfamiliarity, hope, new people and more late night(although I haven't decided what I'll be doing then)and to the people who shall remain permanent fixtures in my story.:)

PAST • FUTURE