nick42

You know, Morgan wrote some stuff in her diary recently about chang. And I've been thinking how that has been true in my own life. Particularly today, as one of my best friends and colleague Erika is leaving to go to med school. I at least thought I'd have one more day at work to say goodbyes and goof off one last time. But no, she's gone, and I'm sitting alone in my office trying to focus on work. She's not far, and I'll see her around. But only for a little while longer, then I'll leave or something else will come up. It's inevitable really.

The life of a graduate student. Everywhere I am, people come and people go. It's really kinda sad. When I was at the University of Florida. I worked in a science lab and met some fantabulous graduate students who quickly became my best friends. These were people like I've never met before. All my other friends seemed boring and distant to me compared to these three (except sam). They were just the greatest people I had ever met. And then, one by one, they graduated and left. As the last one departed, I too decided there was nothing left for me there, and moved on to UVA for graduate school. Again, new students came, and then they left. It seems they always left as soon as we had gotten to be good friends. To top it off, I had begun to regret leaving Florida cause I had become romantically interested in a girl who I knew as an undergrad who lived there. Eventually that relationship would end because mainly due to distance. And then I meet people here that are the greatest friends a person could imagine, like Erika. Like my gaming friends. People every bit as cool as my friends in florida. People who are also transient. People who will be around for a few more months, maybe a year before great distances will separate us.

I say this knowing many people share this way of life. It feels like the life of a transient. But this entry has a happy entry, because I know I will meet cool people in the future, and as old friends leave new one will surely arrive. In fact, if it wasnt for this transient lifestyle, I would never have met Erika, and she would never have made me a happier, better person. I would never have met Adam, Jen, Dan, Teiko, Patrick or Olivia. I would never have met Steve, Jon, or Stacy in florida (or connie). I would never have met Brian, Ed, Ellen, Kelly or Todd.

And perhaps the saddest of all, I would never have met you, Morgan. Though there is no way of knowing what would have happened if I became an accountant and lived in Tampa all my life, I think my life would have been pretty shitty without the people I've met elsewhere in time and space.


And so I conclude this: though it may have its drawbacks, change is pretty swell.