Slow Motion

do you ever feel like life is moving in slow motion? like you're essentially treading water... doing a lot of work and not getting anywhere fast...

and then just like that
everything snowballs and changes...

your summer is planned. money is saved for college. life is looking great.

then one announcement stops everything. your biggest influences are leaving the state. you have to say goodbye in 5 weeks. and this ripples off to some other changes. ireland is effected, camps are effected and not to mention the students. whose faces dropped and i watched their tears through my own. i'll watch their boys grow up through pictures and keep in touch over the internet. it won't be the same but it'll have to do. and of course we've already planned road trips to see them.

so now i'm back to looking forward to the summer.
the countdowns continue.
just one more is added.
and its not one i wanted to see.

this whole semester life has been moving in slow motion and last night it shifted into high gear. less than 3 weeks i graduate from FJC. then less than 2 months i go back to Ireland. and less than 4 months i move to Costa Mesa.

at some point slow motion stops and real life sets in. as Blink 182 says "well i guess this is growing up"