Oi...Shoulder is back to get me...
Anyway.
At dinner tonight, my parents brought up a change of plans. They had been discussing moving to New Mexico after my dad retires...but after spending a few weeks in Florida, they've decided that, after I graduate, they are going to try to move down there.
My mom told me that I was, of course, more than welcome to move down there with them if they do move. In fact, despite all joking about me moving out as soon as I could, both of them seemed more interested in taking me with them to Florida. When I mentioned something I wouldn’t like about moving out of WA, they tried to counter it with something that would make it okay (Me: I wouldn’t even want to move to EASTERN WA, let alone Florida… Them: But that’s all DRY heat.)
So I was thinking about it, and I kept going “Maybe I should go with them…I’d hate for them to be so far out of reach…” but then I remember how much I already hate living an hour and a half from my best friends and a state away from Lave (otherbest)…and I don’t think I could handle putting an entire COUNTRY between me and my best friends.
But then…I remembered…that I never see anyone anyway…and I only talk to three people over here (Nicole, Saeble and Lave)…so what the hell would the difference be? Everyone’s probably going to be off doing their own things, it’s not like I’ll see them any more after I graduate than I do now…And then I just realized that if I don’t learn to drive before I graduate I won’t have a CHOICE. Ariane didn’t learn to drive until nearly a year after graduating and it wasn’t even my parents who taught her. It was her HUSBAND.
I think about it and I really could not pick one or the other. I hate being alone more than ANYthing. I hatehateHATE being alone…but if they move and I stay I WILL be alone. Yeah, I’ll still be within reach of whatever friends remain in WA…but I’ll be alone unless I happen to magically have the money to move back to MV and find a job there. Then there’s still the matter of being able to DRIVE and, oh, I don’t know, COLLEGE. And then, I’m like… “Would there even be a REASON to go back to MV? Probably not…everyone’s going to be at college. What the hell would there be for me in MV?”
So really, what’s keeping me here? The fact that I’ve lived here all my life? The fact that I love Washington to pieces? The fact that this is where my life is? The slim chance that I might still see my best friends more after I graduate (Yeah, right, whatever)? Maybe the fact that Lefi’s a state away? I don’t know. It’s not like I’d have the money to see HER either.
What’s keeping me from agreeing to go to Florida if they do? The heat. The unfamiliarity--I hatehatehatehatehatehatehatehatehate not knowing where things are. I still couldn’t tell you where half the crap in Bremerton is if you asked me. Nothing outside of the immediate area and even then, there’s stuff I wouldn’t know if you asked. The distance from ‘home’. The distance from friends that I hardly ever see or talk to in the first place (God, I feel like I don’t even know most of them anymore. Would it matter if I moved across the country? We never talk as is…) Maybe it’s also that I’m sofreakingsickofmovingawayfromwhatIknow.
Moving 70 miles is bad enough.
God.
I don’t need this to think about on top of graduation and that kind of crap.
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