PIECES OF MY HEART: Fleeting

Today {well, tonight} I have been reminded that time is fleeting. It comes and it goes. It's like the Farris Bueller quote: "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it!" Tonight, the campus ministry I have been involved with since my freshmen year had our Annual {Tacky} Christmas Party and Dirty Santa gift exchange. Two things specifically reminded me of how quickly time passes. The family {Mrs. Shelley}, whose home hosted our party, reminded me that we have known each other for FOUR years. Wow. It seems I was a freshmen yesterday. It's a long road, but the time has come and continues to pass. Also, talking with my friend Meagan I realized another reminder of how fleeting this time of my life is becoming... We remembered the first Christmas Party we attended our freshmen year. And now, tonight was our last. Sooo fleeting it's not even funny! But I have a really great life! This place... Tuscaloosa... it's changed me. It's stretched me. It's been a BLAST. It now holds such a special place in my heart! The beginning of this school year, I found myself saying this is my last collegiate fall sorority recruitment. This is the last time I will spend two weeks of sisterhood week {recruitment practice} with my pledge class. This is my last, first day of undergraduate school. This is the last place I will live as a college student. And that seems like YESTERDAY. Tonight, I'm reminded that this semester is coming to a close. Life's happened over the last few months! I'd forgotten about all these "lasts" until tonight. I mean... I've watched my friends [KATIE and BETHANY] talk about these same things. But it never hit me. I've wanted to live in the moment!! Right now! And I am still. I think it's okay for me to take a step back. It's good that I'm noticing these lasts, as long as I don't let them get me down! Noticing the lasts makes me take Farris Bueller's advice about taking a look around before I miss THIS! My family friend, Mrs. Lynn, was right four years ago when she told me there was so much more to this University... and this college experience... than what's in between the front and back of a textbook! I believed she was right then. I KNOW she was right, now! Fleeting, I tell you!

This past Friday marked another end of an era. My last FOOTBALL SEASON of my college career here at the Capstone! ROLL TIDE! Auburn beat us by ONE point! And that's all I'm going to say about that. It was a bittersweet memory. Such is this life : ) We know my blog lacks in the picture department. I LOVE photography. But you would never know, because I don't take enough pictures! Here's some I stole from Facebook from football seasons over the last four years: