With Christmas music playing, cookies baking and parkas warming, we can all begin to fall into the fluffy holiday time mentality. Cozy warm hot chocolate dates and sledding on mountainous snow days will all be arriving in short order. Everything's a little different around christmas time. People are brighter, even though the sun shines less. Smiles are warmer against the cold exterior and things, without fail are always sweet...cookies, pie, candy canes. YUM=].
But anyways, sometimes things just get better around the holidays. You remeber that no matter how much you hate your friends and family...you really love them and theyre unique, like snow flakes. Being home for Thanksgiving is almost like a Christmas tease. Seeing everyone who you can count on and is the perfect amount of familiar is the best thing after being thrown into a world of new.
When you gear up to go outside, long sleeved shirt, pants, snow boots, jacket, hat, gloves and long socks is putting on everything comfortable and protective to help you face the cold winter. Inside your house with the tree and the pretty lights, its easier to step outside knowing thats still there. Thats kinda like what leaving for school is. You leave knowing whats safe is still there. Youre whole life you learn how to "dress" youself to face the outside. And when things get rough out there, home is always a comfort.
It'll be hard going back tomorrow, but it has to be done. I like school, i really do. But it gets really hard when the new begins to fade and reality sets in. One thing thats stuck with me recently is the fact that the worst thing to do is compare your home friends to your school friends, theyre so drastically different. They will never know who you were when you were twelve, nor will the have the capacity to do so because they werent there and its not fair to that against them, even if you dont mean to. Where it gets really hard is when you have to accept that they will know THIS you, something your home friends wont really get the chance to do.
Remembering that now is just now and things will change is scary and comforting all at the same time. The way I felt last may when I picked Sacred Heart is not how I felt when i got here and when I got here is not the way I feel now so, next month, won't be the same either. Take is as it comes and let the wind blow you where it will, wear your jacket and eat an extra cookie or two, just enjoy the journey.
Top 5...things that make me happy, right now.
1. Home.
2. Home made pumpkin pie.
3. Midnight Shopping.
4. Christmas Music!
5. Iggy.
What's yours...
1. My Bed
2. Back to SHU tomorrow.
3. Next week
4. Making other people smile
5. hulu.com
Posted by: Sam | November 28, 2009 at 07:53 PM