Dear Life Experiences...: Today, I leave my home (MONDAY!).

One of the hardest things I have had to face was saying goodbye to all my loved ones: friends, family, kids. Now realize, I have spent years growing up in this town getting to know a good portion of the population. It's debatable whether or not I really know the entire town; I say I don't, others say otherwise.

ANYWAYS! Since I've graduated from high school, I have been working with a non-profit, family friendly theatre company. For the past three summers, I spent my days getting to know my students; my kids. I have watched them grow and mature. You don't want them to grow, you want them to stay young and innocent (there are exceptions though; ones that need to get older and hope they get better). In experiencing this, I have understood how parents feel when their babies grow and leave the nest. Mostly because the kids desperately want to leave and get away from their parents. These kids on the other hand, not so much.

This entire summer, the kids have slowly been learning that I have been moving away (parents included!). As they've been discovering this fact, some of them have cried, some have huffed, and some believe that I'm really not leaving and keep hoping that I'm joking around. Everyone has told me to stay, that I shouldn't leave and have given me reasons. They are viable reasons:

1. Traffic sucks
2. Air sucks
3. Water can give me some new friends
4. I'm surrounded by smelly people
5. I have no friends there (except I do...I haven't even moved down and yet I have friends already...)

Now, my parents on the other hand, happiest people in the world. Mostly because:

1. They don't have to pay for extra electricity
2. They don't have to make food (it's not like they make much food anyway!)
3. They don't have to do dishes...oh, wait! I definitely do those...all dishes that magically appear
within 6 hours...
4. They don't have to clean...oh, I do that as well...
5. They don't have to do my laundry...wait, I do my own clothes

What do I not already do?

I will say, there are things that I will dearly miss about home (other than the people):

1. Fresh air
2. Fresh water (from a faucet!)
3. The wilderness
4. Snow (sort of...)
5. Poseidon

Sincerely,
An Asian