so many goodbyes to say, no time to talk
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Wow… so blessed. I just got word that I will be heading back to the MTC on Monday. I have 72 hours to get ready, but man am I excited. El Salvador, here I come!
Trying to recreate an earlier spontaneous blog post that got deleted thanks to a 404 error.
Everyone has regrets. Much of the time it is hard to forget these regrets, but similarly to tragic events in history books, it can be useful to remember painful memories so as to prevent similar things in the future.
Want to know one of my biggest regrets? My first year of college. I missed out on a lot of fun with friends whom I ended up alienating. I still had good times, but I know that I distanced myself from many people who are, in the end, most important to me.
If I may offer a few words of advice to anyone who might read this post, I suggest that until you are ready and mature enough to meet the love of your life and get married and all that jazz, friends should come first. If you think about it, you’re only really going to have one relationship that will work out. The number of friends you can gain, however, is infinite.
I didn’t see at the time that I was growing apart from my friends and roommates. I didn’t appreciate them like I should have. And now most of them are so far away and hard to reach that I worry that things won’t be repaired for quite some time, if ever. Thankfully in my few months home I have been able to mend one or two of the friendships that deteriorated last year.
So to those in Boise, I’m sorry you weren’t able to encounter the best version of me.
To those in Kentucky, congratulations. I’m happy for you.
To Zac, Shaun, Matt, Jace, David, Jessica, Hunter, Olivia, Sheldon, Kirk, Tyler, Blake, Davin, Katie, TJ, Taylor, and Ryan, I am sorry I lost myself. I wish you were all here now.
To each of my friends, from Idaho to Ithaca, California to Croatia, Blackfoot to Brazil, Rexburg to Romania, Fort Worth to Fort Lauderdale, St. Paul to Santa Ana, I love you all.
It has been a rough 10 months at home but I know it was all meant to happen this way. I’m moving forward now. Let’s start over.
Hi, my name is Steven.
16 & 19 as requested by erinitasmith
16.
- Q: A wish
- A: I wish that I could know when I’m leaving on my mission (again…) and if I’ll still be going to El Salvador and Belize. It has been so long and I am completely in the dark as to how any of this works. I’d rather just leave at the end of the summer after spending time with my friends and family which means I’ll probably leave really soon.
19.
- Q: If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?
- A: I wish I could go back a couple years and try to learn how to give my all to everything I do. I didn’t try hard in school and I ended up in Rexburg. Now in my mind that triggers an entire chain of events which is a whole correlation vs. causation mess that I tend to muck up. Bonus: that would be another thing to change.
Surely I’m not
the only person who crafts insightful monologues over inspiring music playing in the car while driving.
