Changing of the Guards

Everything is changing. For the good. For the bad. I can never tell. It seems the same, but it's different.

Everyday we meet people. And everyday we are never the same because of what we learn from people. It's not drastic, but rather the little things. Things you never mind on a day to day basis. Until one day, after a certain time, a certain accumulation, you realize everything has changed.

It makes me sad, but hopeful at the same time.

I look at my friends and see what kind of people we've become. What different lives we're living. What different perspectives we're seeing.

It amazes me how much little time can do to alter a person. To become the persons we are all now. And in another year or two, we are different persons yet again.

When summer no longer means what it once meant. The carefree joy of loving a youthful life. When summer becomes the realization that everything changes. No matter how hard you try to hold on to it. To keep it, until you realize that it's not the same and the only thing left is for you to accept it and move on and hope...