All my life...
The song by the Beatles could not be more true. It takes only but a statement for me to drift off and think about my past, and how things have changed in just a few years. My pen-pal Sol told me in a letter the other day about how her dear friend was moving away. A feeling that I could very much relate to.
Looking back on my early childhood, before moving to Las Vegas, I wonder about some of those kids that I was really good friends with. Ones that I probably will never hear of again. One time I returned to State Line, NV I saw a few of the folks I knew from way back when. Playing soccer in the local park. I could recognize the face, and the names followed shortly there after. It was sad when I was thinking about it, but not all that unbelievable. I know, they moved on. And they are living for the day. That is perfectly fine. I just wonder how they are doing right now... I still wish to this day that I had kept in some form of contact with them. Though at the time we moved I was still very young, to young to really step forward on that plate.
Another one of these moments came just last night, as I was on my way home from Town Square in Las Vegas. Driving along Sunset Road, talking about high school. The good times and the bad times, it seems to be flying by so fast now that your on your way out the door. I regret not being more involved during my freshman year, I mean it was not really until last year that I stopped making such a fool of myself and joined in the the fun.
With all this thought, you should never regret to much. I regret not doing some things, but if I could change anything... I wouldn't. What happens happens, and in my personal opinion. Its always good to take a moment and think about our lives. Look at me I am only 17 and I sound like an old man talking about his life. Its amazing, though. How in only that time, of my life how much has changed, and there are still so much more time to come.
-Takahashi
