The Oldest Story in the World.

"It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're seventeen and planning for someday, and then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today, and that someday is yesterday and this is your life."-Nathan Scott


It's Christmas Eve and I've come home from another Christmas Eve service at church. Only this one has been different from all the rest. This time it hit me that my friends and I are actually grown. For the first time in as long as I can remember all my friends were not at the service. We didn't stay after to take pictures and hang out for awhile. The service ended and we went in different directions, to work, with family, or in Gage's case waiting to come home from Nashville.

Growing up is a strange thing. Like the quote above it somehow sneaks up on you. It doesn't matter that you know that you are getting older. Somehow it is relatively easy to just hang on to the moments of freedom and staying out late, the next thing you know you've blinked and that doesn't happen anymore. You've got responsibilities and it is harder to get everyone together. Maybe that is what makes the time when you are all together all the sweeter, when you realize that the forging of memories is serious business if only because at some point memories are harder to make and being able to recall times when life was less hectic and things seemed much more carefree is comforting.

This is the natural order of things. You plan for someday, you know that at some point you won't be able to do all the things you did in High School or in College, but then that time comes and it feels so sudden and you weren't entirely prepared. Then you take a step back and realize someday is now and life will never be quite the same. Things change but that is how it is supposed to be. It isn't easy but it is good. We weren't meant to stay teenagers forever, at some point we have to grow up, sometimes that means we go in different directions and not being near each other.

But the crux of friendship isn't about the physical closeness so much as knowing that these people will be there for you when you need it. These are the people who know you best and distance doesn't  change that. 

So to whom it may concern, I look forward to the story continuing through the years we might be adults but that certainly hasn't stopped us yet.


(A/N:1000 points if you understand the reference of the quote without looking it up)