I love this time of year... All the joy going around, last minute shoppers, Christmas songs, lights, decorations...Knowing it's one more aniversary of the birthday of the Savior of the world!
Things had been a little hectic in November and I'd felt kind of down...but ever since December's come, I've just had this strange sense of peace & contentment. Like there's nowhere I'd rather be and nothing I'd rather be doing at the moment and I wouldn't change it all for the world. It's kind of a hard thing to capture with words and make it for people to understand. It's some thing you've just got to feel for yourself, I suppose. It's like that happy feeling you get when the movie finishes with a happy ending...Only it lasts past the ending credits and bonus features.
I can hardly believe it's almost Christmas though! It seems so insane... I mean, it feels like just a couple weeks ago that I returned home from my second visit to Camp Hope. It doesn't feel that long since last Christmast...Or that awesome New Year's party where I hung out with all my youth group friends until midnight and watched fireworks blasting over the river.
It's far but it's near
like it's gone but it's here
Flown away
But with me to stay
An explaination for time?
So very hard to say...
Haha, poet moment. What can I say? It just came to me.
But although the year's gone by so fast, I'm very happy with how it's all worked out. A lot has happened... a friendship that looked beyond gone has been once again repaired, my brother and I have grown a lot closer and I would go so far as to actually consider him a friend now, I've made some amazing new friends and gotten to know the new people of last year better. I finally broke my mental block and created a song that has both music and words together (though I have yet to perfect playing it). Even gotten to be friends with some people who I never pictured myself ever hanging out with and they turned out to be awesome. It's been an amazing year. Now this I wonder: What will my 2009 bring? ...And more than that, how long will it take me after the new year to stop writing 2008 on my journal entries? Heck, I've still written '07 on a few things by mistake...LOL!
What will our new year bring with it? I guess that's for God to know and us to find out.
Until then, in case I don't have time to make a new post before the end of next week... Merry Christmas! Love you all <3
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Wow, you just about summed up Christmas Spirit, and New Years. Thanks for being an amazing writer Sarah!
LOL. nice. putting '07 on the stuff. love it! i guess we will record how long it takes for you to write 09 instead of '08 or '07!
Haha thanks you two.
LOL! You know, we totally should, Bo. This year I think it took me about 8 or 9 months to completely stop. I'm used to writing 08 now =D ...that won't last long.
hahahahahahha
gosh. 2009. does this not freak some people out?
like, I remember when it was 2000 and what a big deal it was. and now it's nine years later, and I'm feeling incredibly old.
I think it just sunk in last night that I'll be 17 next month, and I thought about starting to act my age.
and then I thought, maybe not.
but I'm not sure yet how it will all work out. you get a job and you want to be all mature. and then you hang out with friends and it's so much more fun to ride the merry-go-round one more time shouting Noro Lim, Noro Lim, Bill!!!!
wow, i just took a closer look at your poem, and i really liked it! lol. i should have noticed it earlier, but it's really good! lol sorry .........
Yes, totally Kacy! It's weird. I remember that year...It was the first time my parents ever let me stay up to midnight on New Year's eve. And it snowed...and I went sledding. That was awesome =D haha and then there was the Y2K bug. That's hilarious. Everybody thought stuff would break down and the world was gonna end or whatever...I bet walmart made a real haul selling survival kits. I remember looking up at the ceiling there and seeing hanging posters saying "Prepare for the Y2k bug!"
funny.
And thanks Bo =)
awwwwwww
i don't remember any of y2k . . . .
Wow seriously? You never saw the news or signs in the store or anything?...hmm let's see ... you were probably 8 in the year 2000, right? Cause I was 7 and you're a year older than me...
i have the worst memory of anyone i know. it's horrible. oh well.
Well, my friend Dwight always likes to say "Boys don't notice things"
lol. Or maybe it's like Dory's short term memory loss.
I don't remember Y2k, but I was 4 then
sorry, i was 3 almost 4
Ahhh well that would make sense then for sure.... I don't remember hardly anything about when I was four.
I don't remember it either, if that makes you feel better Jacob.
I think I might remember some people talking about it, but I really don't remember anything else about it. that's crazy.
ah, the things we all missed. it makes me wonder what we'll be telling our kids in twenty years or so.
like, when I was your age gas prices went from two bucks to four bucks and then back down to two bucks in a year. that was just the first signs we had of how the government was gonna take over and control everything!!!!!......
ahhhhhh yeah.
oooh random
Hahaha yeah totally Kacy XD
actually, I heard the government was trying to pass a thing where they can basically control families and then there was this child rights act that would make it so basically kids can do whatever they want and if they don't like something their parents do, they can just call the government or CPS. It's terrible. But from what mom read on the internet like 70% of parents are against it. So hopefully that won't pass.
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Actually, I didn't even read all the comments. . . just wanted to write random.
But that is awful!! Can you imagine what turmoil this country would be in??
I know! It would be just insane....and so many kids would probably call CPS and then accidentally get themselves pulled out of their homes...it would just be awful. But hopefully with statitstics like that, it won't pass.
I don't trust statistics. . .
Aaaaaahhhhhhh I am sick and tired of politics, government, and not knowing what to think!!!
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