change is good.

well, another month has gone by. seriously, time is going so fast this year! everyone told me when i was a freshman that "the next four years will fly by" but i never believed them. until now.

graduation is in 75 days. grad-u-freakin'-ation. when did i get this old?

looking back on old pictures (something i love to do), it feels like i was living in North B 117 yesterday. but oh, how things have changed. i've grown up. i've changed. my friends have changed. my family has changed. everything has changed. but when? when did all of the changes occur? obviously, i can pinpoint big events that changed my family, friends and self - my brother's wedding, three spring break trips with Cru that stretched me and forced me to grow in so many awesome ways, funerals, friends' boyfriends and breakups, big decisions about the future... these are the events and occurrences that changes are made from. and in the past 3.5 years, even though i didn't notice most of it happening, things changed.

i'm glad. things aren't supposed to stay the same. if they had, i wouldn't have an amazing sister-in-law, i wouldn't have amazing memories from road trips and international travel and i wouldn't have the amazing best friends that i do today. i also wouldn't have a plan for my life in 75 days when i am done walking across that stage at van andel as a graduate of GVSU. i'm 99% committed to attending CMU in May for physical therapy school. that final 1% will likely come this week when i sign a lease with girls i know pretty much nothing about. but they're going to be my classmates starting May 14, and we will be going through the trials and tribulations of PT school together, so i'm excited that i will be living with them.

change is good. change is good. change is good.

i'm trying to remember that, in an effort to not freak out about the fact that i will be leaving everything i know in 3 short months.

yes, change is good.