A song I found hidden on my hard drive...

"We dance upon the street we call pretend,
But I can’t shake the feeling I don’t want this to end.
I can read you like the map that takes you anywhere,
So pick the place and take me there..."

"All I can see are the best parts of you and me.
All I can ask, "will you take me somewhere?""

- Mae

First part brings to mind something wholly different from the second part. Graduation and someone. Have a hard time thinking about both most days.

This has to be posted as graduation nears...

It's a song that everyone remembers and one that I come back to and listen to often. I've always loved it and it means more every day closer to May 16th.

"But trust me, in twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself

And recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you..."

"Don’t waste your time on jealousy;

Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.

The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself..."

"Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life,

The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives

Some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t..."

"Understand that friends come and go, except for the precious few you should hold on to.

Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get,

The more you need the people you knew when you were young..."

- Baz Luhrmann

One month to go...

And sometime I can't breathe trying to think about it. I'm not ready to leave. I told Tallie that I thought by leaving this place, this school, I would be leaving a part of myself here. She gave me the optimistic version and said I would be taking Bryn Mawr with me wherever I go. Either way, it's going to be hard to let go of the school and even hard to let go of the people I met here. I don't let myself think about it much and it doesn't get brought up in conversations among my friends and I. I've never heard this song before, but it came on my Pandora tonight and it comforted me.

"And the hope of a new day is sometimes hard to see,
And though I'm finally catching onto it,
And now the past is just a conduit,
And the light there at the end is
Where I'll be..."
- Reliant K