I am so incredibly excited about this week! Why you might ask? Because my parents are in the Grand Cayman Islands which means I've been adopted by my second family, the Nizniks!
I started staying with Ash on Saturday night after going out to eat with our best friends and we've been having so much fun already. When we got home from dinner last night, we watched the movie The Help, which was definitely as good as everyone made it out to be. I highly recommend watching it if you haven't already. It really made me think about how prevalent discrimination was not just decades ago, but still in today's society. I could go on and on, but I'll save these thoughts for another time.
As for Sister Week, today my "sis-tor" and I decided to do something out of the ordinary and make it a special Sunday. After debating back and forth on what to do, we settled on some shopping down at the South Side Works in Pittsburgh. The day started off really well, I mean, successfully parallel parking and all by yours truly (thank you, thank you very much) but as we went to some of our favorite stores and ended up with nothing, we started to feel a little discouraged. Then we came to the conclusion that we are just cheap and want to save our money for more important things like senior trip, summer concerts, and soon to be college life.
This then led the conversation to college, what life after high school will be like, and what we ultimately want out of our future. I love talks like these with those who are close to me because I always see the person I'm talking to still being in my life years and years down the road. It is so scary to think about how much will change though. Ash is obviously one of my closest friends and I know that we will stay in touch, but our talk made me question who else I still will be connected with and talk to after graduation. I say all the time how I can't wait to go to college, start the next chapter of my life, and meet new people, but after taking time to reflect with some delicious Black Out Cake from the Cheesecake Factory, I realized how amazing the people already in my life now are. I have two core groups of friends that I can't imagine my life without and as much as I want to get out of West A and push myself outside of my comfort zone, I always want those nine friends to stay in touch and be a part of my personality. Truly, I don't know what I'm going to do without seeing their faces and listening to their (mostly racist) jokes everyday next year guys. Cue the tears.....
Well, enough thinking of the future for one day. It's time to live in the present, enjoy the time we have left, and make the best of senior year! And most importantly, live every day to its fullest.
"Don't wait for someone to tell you it's too late, 'cause these are the best days...."
