well this is gonna be another long blurb about what's up in my life. nothing juicy, so sit tight, get ready to be blasted by my cheesy thoughts in the form of cringe-worthy run-on sentences and try not to fall asleep. happy reading! <wink>
first things first, so like i said at the end of my previous post, i'm illinois-bound tomorrow morning for camp! what kind of camp? hmm, well, i'm not really entirely sure myself, but it's definitely not one of your typical music or science or anything academically related camp. the whole thing is called Journey to the Heart (JTH) and runs ten days long up in the mountains. i guess you could say it's more of a spiritual camp centered around a get-away-from-all-the-noise-and-chaos-and-busyness-of-your-life-and-learn-to-draw-close-to-Him theme. yep. honestly, i'm not quite sure what to expect from it, but one thing i know, i'm going to go with an open heart and mind to whatever He wants to say to me. i have no doubt the people i meet there will be amazing, and i'm rather excited about meeting them. :)
the one downside to the camp means that today marks the last day of an official last week with my bro before he heads off to college. obviously this isn't the first time he's been away from home, so it hasn't quite sunken in yet that i won't be seeing him around the house for a good period of time. or maybe a little part of me is already preparing myself for the goodbye. maybe..who knows. it feels like just yesterday when we were little kids sitting on the bed and arguing about whose turn it was to take out the stuffed animals from the toy box or having bike races around our neighborhood. or flying kites together or me being jealous that he could ride on any ride in DisneyWorld because he was actually tall enough to...or him bossing me around like a troll. oh wait, that WAS yesterday. hehe just kidding, i love my bro. in all seriousness, i really am going to miss him soo dearly when he leaves. hats off to you peeps who are the only child in the family. i have no idea how you guys do it. siblings are just the best. the other day, i found the birthday card from my bro last year and in it he had written about how this was going to be the last year of him at home to celebrate with me (see *below). now that i think about it, that's pretty true because the year he graduates, i'm going to be the one leaving home and while i'm in college, he'll most likely find a job or keep studying elsewhere, and when i graduate from college, he'll probably move out again for a job and then wow, things are going to be so very...different.
hmm, you know what? i can honestly say we did make this one the best. hey bro, if you ever read this, here's to you and your bright future ahead. things are most certainly going to change in the long run, and home might not be the home we used to remember, but just know, i'll always treasure the memories we had togetherr. keep looking up and aheadd, cheers.
couple days ago, i took a lovely walk down memory lane with a really good friend i had grown up with. throughout the conversation, we smirked and laughed about the silly things we'd done together as kids and the people we had met. our families had hung out pretty often, so there were plenty of memorable moments that we shared from him and his siblings sleeping over at our house, his brother breaking our radio, and getting made fun of for him liking me to me celebrating my tenth birthday at their house, playing silly computer games and all sorts of mishap. sometimes i wish i could just go back in time and relive some of those memories.<sigh>
afterwards, it got me to thinking about how drastically my life would be if certain people had never come into my life. would i miss out anything or would everything just be the same? would i even be who i am today because of them or could life just go on without ever knowing these people? i guess depending on the person, impacting somebody's life in a profound way may or may not be hard. it's not always a conscious thing, i suppose...sometimes i wish i could just pull out a chart and look up how so and so impacted me and what i things i would've done differently if i hadn't met this person. that'd be pretty cool. or even better, i could see how i impacted this person. if such a chart existed, i wonder how people would do things so much more differently. hm, just a thought to throw out there...
anyway, i have to run along and check for things i might've forgotten to pack yesterday night...this shall be my last post for awhile, since after i get back, i will most likely trying to be spending most of my time with the bro. (three days before he flies out). alrightyy, til thenn! <waves>
it's a long way home.
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