Thursday, 24 Jul 08
Time
Time passes quickly and before you know it, you’ve spun through phases in life like an electric mixer through batter, until everything’s blended together into one smooth memory.
I remember not knowing what braids were called, and begging my mother to do them for me, you know, Mommy, the hair goes this way and that way and it’s like criss-cross but it’s not, because even then I understood that little girls were supposed to look pretty.
Band room, in school, doing 120 push-ups next to our conductor while the entire band went on with practice. My conductor made me start from zero when I had gone up to 80, just because she couldn’t believe I’d done them that fast; even though my friend had been keeping count and stood up for me. And then the second time she made me start over again.
Getting confirmed in church, and then leaving church. For five years.
Was it really seven years ago we were standing in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, muttering quietly, one, two, three, four, turn as we solemnly sang the school hymn? Falling asleep right there in the front of the church, in full view of all, because I had the shittiest migraine and was medicated half into a coma just so I wouldn’t miss commencement. I refused to miss commencement.
University. Post-grad.
They’ve all flown by so fast.
And through all that, there are still some friends that have remained constant and a part of my life.
No matter how things change, some things always stay the same.
How blessed can one get?
JADEITE