It’s begun…
Posted on September 20th, 2008 by Kas. Filed under Uncategorized
People are all going their separate words again for study. I start bright and early Monday morning, I can’t wait. I’ve set myself the goal to be a slave to my work this year. OK, so maybe that’s a little dramatic. I’ve just been out of the loop for a while and I’m all fired up to knock it out the park.
I think the time limit for getting an apartment has kind of come and gone (I chose to leave it late) so that means I’ll be with my parents for the next year. Not particularly happy about this really. Yeah I’ll save money but I feel out of place here, like I should be gone. I know I’d rather have my own place. I’m still going to try and find a place before the new year, and know a friend who wants to flat-share, so here’s hoping. Not looking forward to the hour and a half journey out of the city each day…
Yesterday there was a ‘parting of ways’ do. It was pretty fun, got there just in time to break my fast and managed to see mostly everyone before they left.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:34 am
When all my friends moved away to college, I remained at home and went to a local community college. At first I felt really left behind but after a while I actually enjoyed it. I had a BIT (and by bit I mean very little) more agency from my parents but I actually grew to be really close to my family.
I was DYING to move out, but in the end staying was a really good thing. I liked it so much that I stayed for 2 years. Right as all my friends were moving back in with parents as they chose different life choices, I moved out.
As for the commute…right before Ben and I started dating/became engaged (only dated for a week before we were engaged), I got a job in a town about an hour drive away. Ben lived with his parents about a 2 minute walk from my parents. I wanted to be near him, so I paid for an apartment by where I worked (signed the contract before we were dating real serious) and lived with my parents! OY! I commuted every day for 4 months until we got married and moved into our first apartment.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
That’s interesting. I guess I’m justimpatient. And as you said, feeling a bit left behind.
You two only dated for a week before engagement, woah, you must have really hit it off! Good on you.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 am
I didn’t mention the whole story cause it was too long. We had known each other since the 2nd grade and we were 7 years old! I grew up with Ben. We were really good friends from our Senior year of high school (when we were 17 and 18) on. Our first year of college he was 6 hours away at another school and drove home most weekends to see me. Sometimes he brought his girlfriend home and we would go on double dates: Ben and his girlfriend, me and my boyfriend. Other weekends he would help me study for this or that college exam or hung out with me and my boyfriend.
Ben left on his mission after his first year in college when he was 19. We wrote back and forth while he was in Brazil. His girlfriend broke up with him so she could date other guys. My boyfriend and I broke up. When Ben got home from his mission 2 years later, I was really excited for him to get home, he was my best friend.
Ben was home for 3 weeks before we started dating. We dated for the one week but really we both knew from the moment he got home that we were meant for each other. We were married just less than 5 months after he got home from Brazil.
There, now you have our love story!
As for the impatience with your situation, I wish I had some great answer. I do think it is important to move out and be make it on your own but I don’t think you have to push it. Really you live for 80-100 years and of that you only live 18-25 years in your parents home. It may seem like forever now, but later on you will look at it and realize how short that time really was!
Also, wanted to add…I really like the song on your site: Storm by Lifehouse. Never heard it until today and I really like it.