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Monday, 22 February 2010

i love college?

I don't know about any of you guys but I'm someone who didn't go away to college. I would have loved to but I really don't have the money for it so I go to William Paterson that is about 15 minutes from my house. Even though I'm a commuter, I'm still loving the college experience. I'm playing volleyball and trying new things and meeting new people. The only thing bugging me is the fact that I really do miss my high school friends. But I don't miss who they have become. My "best friends" who went away to school seem to have become a stranger to me. I do really try to keep in touch but it never works out. I get ignored telephone calls, texts, and wall posts. I thought maybe its me and im just annoying them but then they started to ignore everyone else who was still at home. For example, my best friend Brad and I had been best friends since sophmore year of high school. We were pretty much inseperable. We had classes together, ate lunch together, and even shared a locker. We spent a lot of the summer together too and brad helped me through everything during those years in high school. He was like the brother I never had. The day Brad left for school was one of the saddest days of my life. He came over an hour before he was leaving and we just cried. Brad has seen me cry before cause im a girl and i cried all the time to him about boys lol but never in those 3 years had i seen mister big tough football player Brad cry before. Now fast forward to our freshman year of college. Graduation was only 8 months ago and now Brad acts like he doesn't even know me. I'll text him and get no answers. I'll call him and get lies. He'll come home for a weekend and lie about it or not even tell me he came home. I was so excited to make a college volleyball team and asked him to come to one game, just one. But he was too busy with his "friends" to come watch me play as a freshman on a college team. This isn't my only friend like this, but most of them.
College has done something to my friends and I was just wondering has this happened to anyone else who stayed home for college while everyone else went away?

Wednesday, 09 December 2009

true love

I just heard the cutest love story from my grandfather. When my Grandpa was in his twenties, he wanted to go fight in the war, but he had medical problems with his ears so they didn't allow him to fight in the war. He lived in Midland Park, New Jersey where a woman owned his favorite ice cream place. My grandfather was and still is quite a flirt, so he would go into this ice cream place because he always thought that this woman was so pretty. After awhile, the woman said her daughter was coming from Chicago to Jersey to live with her and her new husband. My Grandpa wasn't really interested but met the daughter anyway. They fell in love right then and there, but when the school year started again the girl had to go back to Chicago to finish her nursing school. Soon she got sick and needed her appendix removed and for some reason her mother wanted her to come back to Jersey to have the operation done. She saw my grandfather everyday she was here and when she was supposed to go back home she just couldn't stand being away from my grandfather. Years later they were married and had six kids. Now they are both in the mid-80's and have been married for 60+ years. My grandmother has been diagnosed with alzheimers and dementia for lamost the past 7 years. She is in her last stages and really doesn't know much anymore. She can't feed herself, walk, talk well, and she doesn't know many of her family members. But when my grandpa walks in the room she still knows him as her "sweetheart" She always has the look in her eyes when he enters the room. It makes me happy to see them still in love after 60 years of marriage.
Does anyone out there still think this love is possible?