Briguy’s World

That was quick

August 23, 2011 at 5:14 am (Uncategorized)

To be honest, I expected that summer to last a bit longer. But that’s how every summer works until you start working full time as an adult. Ugh. Adulthood.

It’s midnight on August 23, 2011. It’s the first day of school in District 214, and this time I won’t be going. This whole summer has just been Roblox moderation, then play, then sleep, then repeat. I’ve been enjoying the whole thing, but it wasn’t until this week when I saw that summer was over. I don’t have any summer homework or any other obligations other than work, but I still have many things to look forward to.

I still have a lot of friends at Elk Grove. I was the only senior that took part in Morning Announcements, and in my friend circle, there were only four seniors out of a good 20 friends and friends of friends. Now they’re all heading back for another year, knowing that the people that they left with will be there when they come back. I won’t. I hope to come to school early and make one last visit to the morning announcements folk. They’re all nice, honest people who do it because they want to.

Meanwhile, the friends I graduated with are starting to say their final goodbyes to the friends they spent four whole years of their life with. Some may be staying around, some may not go far, and some are going so many states away they’re in a whole new climate. I’m heading to University of Wisconsin at Platteville, where no other EG student is going, or ever has. My best friend is heading to a college in the city. My other friend is going farther than I will: Iowa State.

It’s sobering to go on one last outing with a friend, knowing this is the last time you will see them for perhaps a very long time. But it’s always reassuring that you will see each other somehow later in life. Friendship is weird like that.

Here’s to my friends back at Elk Grove High, and to all my friends going off to their new homes at their colleges. No matter where you are, remember where you came from, and who you befriended along the way. They’re never worth forgetting.

–Brian