the winds have change have blown this way, and it was not just a slight breeze. the hint of warm summer afternoons, and cool evenings under the stars overwhelms the senses when one is this close to the end of the semester, and the end is not the only thing that has come on this breeze.

i have learned so much this year here, and not everything you can learn from books. i have learned what it is like to have your heart-broken, what it feels like to have what you think is a major part of your world crash down around you. and more importantly i have learned how to rebuild, and to move on, and that a first love is simply that, a first love.... being 20 years old does not mean it is time to settle... far from it. it is a time to live. i have learned what it is like to dive into new things, head first with no life-vest. and i have learned what i need more than what i want in my relationships with other people, and so much more.

and i have learned what it is like to cry, for sadness, and joy, and frustration.

and, most importantly, as much as you wish it wasn't so, the only person you can ever really rely on is yourself.