Beginning of another life.
I graduate in one week. Roughly 164 hours at the time of my writing this (yes, I did the math).
In one week, the accumulation of what I've been doing for twelve years of my life will come to an end. 2/3 of my life has been spent in this institution.
I am moving out in a month. Third week in June and I'm living with my grandparents until school starts in August.
In one month, my home and sanctuary won't be mine ever again. I've spent my entire life in this house, and it'll never be home again.
Literally everything is about to change. I'm never going to be the same little boy that I was, or the little boy that I am now. I'll never be in high school again, I won't ever be home again, I won't ever be with my friends again. If I'm ever in school, ever at home, or every with my friends, it will be on entirely different grounds, and likely for a very short period of time.
I plan on attending Utah State University in August for a year. By late June/early July of next year I will have my Utah residency sorted out, and I can then serve my mission. After my mission I'll come back and go back to school and hopefully be married pretty quickly. After that I'm going to go to law school and find a specialty that I want to practice. I really want to do constitutional law, though I'm not completely set on that.
Truth be told, I'm not super set on any of that, because it's just a plan. Plans change. Just a year ago I was so certain that I was going to BYU. I planned on having a decent scholarship there, part of it due to music. I was going to be a state football champion. I was going to have a really great GPA by the end of my senior year. I was going to be at the top of my game by the time school got out for the summer, when I was going to work one last summer as a farm hand, perhaps full-time this year.
Plans change, which is fortunate for me. Things aren't working out exactly how I planned, but I know they're working out like they're supposed to.
I'm supposed to go to Utah this summer and have a new experience! I'm supposed to go to Utah State for school! I'm supposed to do whatever else God decides to put me through.
I might never be the same person again, I might never see some of my best friends again, I might never call this home again, I might never be that little boy I once was, but that is ok! I know God will guide me through the rest of my life, and it will be so much better. I won't be the same person, but I will become a better one! I will grow away from my friends, but I'll grow closer to the most important people, ones that will stay with me for the rest of my life! I might not call this home anymore, but I will be able to call lots of place home! Home is where the heart is! I might never be that little boy again, but some day I will be able to raise an entire family of little children!
The next few months mark the end of my current life and the beginning of a new one. Many things will change and some will always remain the same. I'm excited to see what happens!
