Something to live for

This past week has been pretty busy for me with class, internship, trip to Borders to spend the last of my money on books 70% off, random drive to New Haven, job interview, day at the lake, contra and English dances. But it was yesterday, while I was tubing on Candlewood Lake with my whole family watching me laughing, how great my life is. How lucky I am to have this wonderful family who invites me to their house to go swimming, tubing, takes me to a restaurant on a boat, and even adores my best friend. When I get there, they are excited to see me and when I leave they tell me to come back whenever I want. And while I was on the tube bouncing up and down from the waves, I found myself looking up at the sky and appreciating this beautiful, early, still warm September day. I thought about all of this. About everything I have. Okay, so I have had a lot of friends come and go in my life, and I don't have a significant other and not a lot of friends at my school, but I've got so many people that love me. The past year I think I have done a lot of growing up, and came to a lot of great realizations. It was the first year that I was at home and not being forced to go to school (meaning high school). Everything in my life the past year that I've done, I chose to do. I've made a lot of friends and become a lot closer to my family and realized how much they mean to me. 

Yesterday was just one of those days that I felt extremely productive. I left the house at 9:45 in the morning, went for a job interview that I think I did pretty well at, got up to my aunt and uncle's lake house right before noon, spent some time just hanging out on the dock with my little cousins, had lunch, went swimming in the pond, went tubing on the lake, spent at least 45 minutes just being silly and laughing until my stomach hurt with my 13 year old cousin and the 8 year old twins, went to the Red Rooster and they bought me dinner, went straight to Stamford for a contra dance at which I knew nobody. So I may have spent my day with people three times as old as me and kids half my age, but it was a great one.