Back to the Future

I want to have memories of this time when I'm older.
I want to be able to sit around photo albums with my old friends who I haven't seen for years, drinking wine, and talking about our kids and the good old days.
I want to have cool friends who make me feel like high school was only a few days ago.
I want to have friends like my parents' friends.

I feel sad when I think about the future, and graduation, and how we're all going to be going our separate ways. But I take comfort in the fact that it won't be the end, it's the beginning of a new chapter.

These are my high school friends, these are the friends who I'm going to visit over the holidays when we all come home to sleep on our parents' couches.
I'm pretty happy with that.
I like to think that when we all get together 10, 20, 30 years from now, things will feel the same, only we'll have more to say, and more of a taste for fine wine and stuffed olives and goat cheese dip.

Life is really like one big book, with lots of chapters, all a little different from the one before, but all tying together and constantly looking back at the ones before.

I love my friends, and I look forward to our adventures in life reunited.