I feel old

Last night my sister graduated from high school. My brother graduated last year. I graduated a whopping 6 years ago. I remember all of their friends growing up. They were all so young. Now they're all in or about to be in college. I just got out of college not that long ago. They don't seem old enough to be where I just came from. What is happening in this world?!?!?! I have to remind myself that I'm only 23, but it really feels like time if flying by. I feel like it wasn't that long ago that I started my job. Next month will be 1 year - 1 YEAR! Wow.


It was great to see Annie graduate last night. I was very proud of her and I'm curious to see what she decides to do and how she is going to grow up. Well, she already is grown up, I suppose. I was looking at all of her friends and classmates and noticed how excited they were. I remember being there. It's an exciting time. Looking back, I remember thinking I had made it when I graduated high school. Boy was I wrong. There's so much more to life and so many more challenges, opportunities, and big decisions in your lifetime. You have a lot of growing up to do. In college, no one really cares what you did in high school. You have to prove yourself all over again. It's a tough road, but it was a lot of fun. Of course I wanted to tell her all of that and give all kinds of wise brotherly advice, but I didn't. I think part of learning and growing up is experiencing it on your own. If I tell her what she should and shouldn't do, how I think the world works, all of my findings and how I made it through college, etc - then she really wouldn't get to find it out herself. Besides, if I was that age and someone had told me this is what you do, I probably would have done the exact opposite. If for whatever reason she decided to listen to me, she wouldn't get the experience herself and because we're 2 completely different people, it could really hurt her instead of help her. All in all, I'll be hear if she ever needs someone to talk to or advice about something, but I'm not going to just tell it to her because it's not my place. She's going to make her own choices and learn what to do. And I'll be proud of her no matter what.