Parting Words

Well, anonymous and intermittent reader, this is my last blog post for the year. On Wednesday I'll be heading home and unpacking all my stuff, realizing just how much I'm going to miss all my new friends and how my freshman year of college is done and gone, never to be experienced again. I figure I'll probably ask myself why I didn't take advantage of it more, really enjoy it and not worry so much about things, but I'll try not to do that too much. The more we regret the past the less time we will spend time really enjoying the moment, and in turn we will just create more wasted moments to regret. Summer will be pretty awesome. I'm going to work at the hamburger and brat shack I ran last summer, grilling and sittin' out in the sun. I'll spend a lot of time with friends that I haven't seen for a long time, and I'll probably go on a lot of road trips. This is the first time in my life that summer has come accompanied by a twinge of sadness, because I'll be leaving a place I've come to call home and people I've been privileged to call friends.

I started the year with a few of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes comics, and I think it might be fitting to end with them. Some of them are sad, some happy, some just funny, but all express some truth about my life and perhaps about human life in general (if I may be so bold). I'm sad I'll be leaving, but I also remember lots of happy memories from my freshman year. At times I was depressed, but I think from my experience and from knowing my friends, pretty much everyone gets pretty depressed at some point in their freshman year. If not, you've found a pretty awesome way of distracting yourself from the tougher realities of life, and you should really send me an email with a detailed list of steps to follow (video game advocates need not submit; I've played enough Super Smash Bros. this year to have each map's theme music stuck in my head during class). And perhaps that's why so many college students are drunk every weekend--college is definitely a freedom trip, but it's also accompanied with a lot of new questions, but some people might prefer to drown them out (no judgment intended).

In parting, here are some of my favorite Calvin strips.

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Look closely at this one...

Hobbes always has the best lines.

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Nobody can say they don't get this way sometimes. I had perhaps too many of these moments this year.

And he goes back to daydreaming :)

Thanks for reading, friends. Have a wonderful summer and take it easy,

Danny