Remember you.

Sometimes we move on from things, though that doesn't mean we forget. There are people that we might never see again, but that we'll never stop remembering. For myself, there are many people in my life that will always be on my mind, when things will remind me of them, even though I probably won't ever see them again. There are so many times when I hear someone laugh and I remember that girl in high school that had so many battles to face, or I'll see a smile and it will forever remind me of that first best friend I had so many years ago in a desert far away.

Life moves us on our own journeys and it's sad that so many people and familiar faces are pulled away from us. It's a harsh part of this world, but a part that is necessary all the same. I have spent the better part of my life searching for the reasons why I had to leave things behind, why life moved me away from certain things and toward others. And I'm realizing day by day that that's just what we must do to move ourselves in to the next part of our lives. It's the journey we're on, and people will come and go, that's why we must trust in ourselves the most, because here and there, we will be alone, and we must be able to move on with our journey by ourselves before relying on any one else.

It's interesting because all around me, the people in my life are going through the same things. Long term relationships that are at a weird place, graduating college, moving on to find a job, Grad school, having babies, getting married, getting divorced. Out of all my friends, I would say that every life step has been completed within us in the last few years. And I sit here and think to myself that with all of this happening, that I am just part of the whole beautiful mess that we call life. I have lost my fair share of friends, had my heart broken and reconciled with those that hurt me. I have loved and wondered where it was going, I have lived with someone, gone against what my parents thought was best, and now will be graduating from college with honors. I have moved and resettled, dreamed and been dissapointed. I have watched friends make terrible mistakes and I have seen what a little encouragement can do. I have been told things that no one else knew, and I have watched friends go through abortions, marriages that would never work, families out of jobs, relationships going no where. I have seen time and time again, all of us struggling with the same things, all of us on the same journey but with different destinations.

And so, as I think about it all this morning, to all those people that have been in my life, forever remembered for special moments, for times when it was them that pulled me through, for memories that never will fade, for old pictures that will always remain in my heart. For everyone that's facing up hill battles, for everyone out there that has lost love, that has watched relationships fail, that has lost someone, that has lost faith in themselves, we are all in this together. Always remember, that I will remember you, forever.