A Different Life

I was watching a rerun of a once favorite show of mine Dawson's Creek. Today's story was about how the lead girl and the lead guy were saying bye to each other because they were both leaving home to go their separate ways. While they loved each other, were once a couple, but have always been and still are best friends saying goodbye was the hardest things they had ever done. The next episode was the next time they saw each other when he surprise visited her at college... which by the way rarely happens in real life. Anyways, this show made me reflect on the past. I remember how hard it was to leave my friends, even with the anticipation of college. At the time of my starting college at SWU I was "in love" with my high school sweetheart. He was hard to leave, but it would've been worse to stay. I remember talking to my good friend Jason about high school sweethearts a few years after and he made a comment much to the effect "Who marries their high school sweetheart?" While I do have 2 friends that married their high school sweetheart the odds are still against it. I think I once heard 1 in 7. I'm not saying all of this to say that I wish that things had happened differently because I don't. I just think it's weird how that seems like a different life time or reality. You watch these shows and ask yourself "who really lives like that?" I think in one way or another we all do, even if only for a breif moment. At the time of Jason's comment I thought it was almost heartless, but looking back I know more what he meant... You don't even have a clue who you really are, what your capable of, and where you're going in high school. (Thanks for the honest input, Jason.) I guess I'm glad God had a better plan for me than I had for myself.