The Great Plunge into Adulthood

It's the event that is taking place in most of our lives right now. Sometimes it makes me sad, sometimes I get excited, sometimes I worry that the responsibility will come too fast and I won't be ready for it. But, after some recent happenings in my life, I determined that I wouldn't be sad that so many of you all who are so near and dear to me are going to be farther away for a longer length of time than ever before...since I've met you anyway. Why? Because I'm not going to let that really affect anything if I can help it. I want you all to know, even more than before, how much I love you guys and how much you all mean to me -- every single one of you. I'm going to fight for the relationships I have with you all and my family -- especially my closest sister. I asked someone once how their brother was -- from what his brother had told me they had been close like my sister and I -- and he almost got defensive and said, "I don't know. We don't really have anything in common anymore." And it made me sad that he said that. I was thinking, "And you're just going to let him slip away from you?! You're not going to do anything about it?!" And I thought about Rebekah, and was like, "I don't think we've ever had much in common!" But she's one of the best friends I'll have. Hehe, this is the girl that I got into fist fights with, heated arguements with, tossed blame back and forth with -- we seriously wanted to strangle each other sometimes we clashed so much! But she's also the one I can tell pretty much anything, we've laughed together, cried together, hung out together, shared a bedroom (and sometimes a bed) together my entire life. And I would never just let us drift away.

I love you guys so much, you just have no idea, it's beyond words and comprehension -- and to think God's love is more so. I can't believe we'd ever hurt Him -- much less want to...