- Mar 6, 2009
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Just graduated high school, going into college. Today was the last day seeing a couple of my closest friends, talking about the kids I grew up with, not justhigh school friends. Seeing some go hundreds of miles away and others, not far, but to a different school on the other side of town, you can't help butallow nostalgia to kick in and think back on "those times". I mean, look, I'm in school with about 15k students, not a lot, granted. I knowabsolutely nobody and to see your closest friends dip... man, I know what people say when they say that "people are afraid of success". It wasn'tmy primary choice to go to this school but I got a baseball scholarship and I'm trying to pursue that along with getting my doctorate in case thingsdon't work out with baseball and I felt that my school was the best fit. All my friends have big dreams, all went to where they thought it was mostrealistic to obtain them. But now that money and ambition come before personal relationships, you look at it and think, which is more important, the closestpeople or the biggest dreams? When we talked about it, it came out completely different then when it realistically set it. Do I regret my decision? Not at all.But looking ahead, the road isn't going to be easy. Losing contact with these people is unfortunately becoming a realistic possibility, even though wepromised to make sure that doesn't happen. Funny thing is, neither my friends nor I would describe myself as emotional. As a matter of fact, quite theopposite. But its something about this situation that's making me
Anybody else have the same experience where big dreams got in the way of your closefriends, significant others or even family?
