It's the end of this journey

For my last night in MA, I went out to dinner with three of my best friends. We went to this nice new Mexican restaurant that I had experienced about two days ago and just enjoyed one another’s company. I must say that I really have some amazing friends. Though not all of my friends were present tonight but I am extremely glad that besides two, I had the opportunity to see them all. Hanging out with my friends now is the same as it was back in middle school. I remember on my first day of my freshman year, my English professor told the class that once we go home, everything will be different—our friends will change or as individuals, we will change and I remember thinking to myself how afraid I was about returning home and drifting apart from my friends. To my utter surprise, I came home to find that absolutely NOTHING had changed!

A few of my college friends felt that they had grown up from their friends and they did not really want to hang out with them but only did because they had nothing else to do. For me, going home and seeing my friends felt as though we had NEVER left! My friends and I still joked around the same, still hung out, had sleepovers, and still experienced the strong bonds that some college students lose from their childhood friends. I remember coming home for Thanksgiving break my freshman year and going to lunch at this local Chinese restaurant and thinking to myself how wrong my English teacher was! Fast forward to senior year in college, and it’s still the same old thing.

Dinner with my three friends tonight really was great! Though things were still the same, they really were not. My friends and I just talked and thought about the fact that we were graduating this semester and whether or not we would see one another again after tonight. It sounded so depressing but hey, I might be abroad for a year! One of my friends is moving to either NJ or NY and working in NY! Another one might stay in CA and work there! Another one might move to NH and work there or come back to MA and work here! Another friend is moving to NV and working there! Like me, one’s still figuring out where she really wants to end up, one is going to work in MA, two more are going to work in NY and another is going to grad school somewhere in New England. It is sad to think that we were rarely see one another again unless we come home for the holidays but at the same time, it’s great to know that we’re all doing big things and doing things that we love to do. I love my friends and I know I can always count on them! They’re extremely honest, open, will call me out no problem and vice versa, dependable, funny, and just the most amazing friends a girl can ever ask for… seriously!

No matter where life takes us, I hope we all stay in contact and continue to experience that bond and great friendship we have. I want to be able to tell my kids one day that I have been friends with my best friends for over 30 years! I love you all and I wish you nothing but the best! Congratulations guys, we’re almost at the end of this leg of our journey!!!

If you can dream it, you can do it

So for the longest time, my mom has been telling me to create a dream board. What exactly is a dream board? It’s a board in which you put your entire life on and it has to be specific. For example if you want children, you cut out pictures of how many kids you want, and you put it on the board. If you want to be dentist, you cut out a picture of something that has to do with dentistry and paste it on your board. Get the idea?

I had a dream board, back in sophomore year and it was not anything realistic-- at least not for me. It was halfway finished, I had a picture of Chris Brown on it (he was supposed to be the man I wanted to marry but not really), I had a stack of money, a burnt orange BMW, a random mansion in some European country, and a bunch of random words. Looking back on it, it was really just random things I had cut out of magazines, glued on my board, showed my mom, and thought I was satisfied. One big thing about the dream board is that you’re supposed to look at it every day and visualize what you’ve put on it and truly visualize your life the way you designed it. So thinking about my board now, it was definitely a waste of time. Do I see myself marrying Chris Brown? Heccccckkk no. Do I want a burnt orange Beamer?? Not at all. Do I need a 566780978 room mansion in the middle of nowhere? Naah but it would be nice just to say I have one lol.

This entry might seem a little random but the other night, my mom came home with 4 big black foam boards and said it was for a dream board! One was for me, one for her, one for my sister, and one for my brother or my dad. I wanted to do it but it’s too big to fit into my suitcase and it would be ridiculous to ship it. I think this time around, I’m going to put some serious thought into my dream board and make one. Heck, Oprah has dream board ideas posted on her website and if Oprah is talking about it, it’s got t be good!! There are a lot of things that I want out of my life and I really do want them to come to fruition. After all, if you can dream it, you can do it.

If you want to create your own dream board but don’t know where to start, check out the following sites:

http://www.oprah.com/packages/o-dream-board.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Dream-Board

http://www.qualified-lifecoach.com/Dream-Board.html