September 24, 2006

• Nineteen going on Twenty

  Wow... only a few more days to enjoy being a teenager, three to be exact.  I can't possibly be turning 20 already, can I?  It just doesn't seem possible.  I'd really rather not -- I have to many good memories from my teen years... Legacy, jr. high, homeschooling K through 12, highschool, my first year of BCC, and all the time spent with friends...  I don't know, but turning twenty sort of seems like the shutting of a door.  Those times are done and permanently sealed now.  They can't be added to any more.  Yes, I can still do all those things -- be with friends, visit Legacy, etc., but it seems like it'll now be in another part of my life, disconnected from the parts before.

  
  

  But then again, Life must go on, and as one door shuts, there's always another door to be opened.  And although it seems like quite a huge step now, probably, once that day actually comes and goes, it'll most likely feel just like it always has before, with no significant change, and then all those feelings above will just disappear.  But for right now, it just seems weird to think about: I turning 20.  Two Decades.  Wow.

  
  

  "The things which matter most must not be at the mercy of the things which matter least."

  
  

  "Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't think you've done a permanent job."

  
  

  "We are not called to live up to others' responsibilities, but to our own."

  
  

  "If we fill our hours with regrets of yesterday and with worries of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful."

  
  

  "The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd."

  
  

  "Love and respect do not automatically accompany a position of leadership.  They must be earned."

  
  

  Lord, when I am wrong, make me willing to change; when I am right, make me easy to live with.  So strengthen me so that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

  
  

  So now it's time to move on with life.

  
  

   

  
  

  Let's roll.

  
  

   

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