The truth is, today defined the way I’ve been feeling about life over the past couple of weeks. The reality is I’ll never need more than THIS to be truly happy, THIS being a great job, great friends, great memories, and a great family as my rock.
Taking care of children can be pretty mentally exhausting, and even though Fairmont Summer wasn’t quite the “vacation” I needed from teaching in Las Vegas, seeing the joy on most of these kids’ faces was really all I aimed for.
It helped to have both a wonderful staff to work with (mostly drama free), and a terrific boss as well. If there is one reason to come back next summer, it would be see their wonderful faces yet again.
Time fades away as precious as a song, and someday it’ll be gone. Even if I end up losing touch with some of these people throughout the years, it was still good to have them at some point in my life to help shape and grow me as an individual.
Coworkers are equally as important as FRIENDS. A mini-high school reunion happened today as we had our farewell dinner for me (kind of), and my friend who is moving to San Jose. If there’s anyone that resembles anything like a “best friend” to me it would be Timothy Mai, my first friend at Stanford Elementary. We said goodbye over dinner.
The reality is I won’t be that far away (especially not as far away as last year), and I can really come back whenever I want (especially on weekends) to visit friends if need-be.
I then proceeded to treat him out to one last round of Boba (Lollicup), and helped him move some things out of his house into the garbage disposal. Where we once used to talk, socialize, and have “kickbacks”, is now all empty…
The emptiness symbolizes the void that will be forever in my soul as my friend of now 15 years moves away forever. Here’s to hoping he can get into USC Medical School and come back sooner rather than never.
Thank you for everything. Let’s continue towards the future and make the rest of our lives our story. Let’s live in the glory, as time fades away as precious as the song below.
The trees grow so thick
You can barely see through
But the forest bestows the simplest of truths
You think you’ll be happy if granted one more wish
But the truth is you’ll never need more,
You’ll never need more
You’ll never need more than thisWant so much in this life,
There’s so much to be
We sail through our youth so impatiently
Until we see
That the years move along
And soldiers and heroes come home
And they carry a song,Don’t live in forgotten times
May this always remind you
Of the sea under the skies blue looking glass
Let’s make this our story, let’s live in the glory
Time, it fades away,
Precious as a song
Cause someday we’ll be gone
Thanks John!