Tonight I shared a glorious four hours with my two closest friends. We see eachother all of the time, but most of the time it's in scenarios where we can't actually open up due to time restraints or things like that.
We didn't really do anything particularly fancy. We drove to Pella, ate at Culver's, went out to Lake Red Rock, and just walked around the trails for a bit before we sat down at a picnic bench in the darkness.
Four hours of nothing extravagant... yet it was one of the best nights I've had in a long time.
One of my two friends made a comment that struck me hard in particular: "It's not about where you're at, but who you're with."
With the three of us so uncertain about our futures, our lives, and what paths God is taking us down, we're all so concerned about the where that we've almost forgotten the who.
And I finally realized why I'm so sad about leaving next year. It's not the setting of New Sharon that I'm going to miss, but the relationships that I've built with some people around here. Why have the past four months been the best period of my life? It's not because of where I live, but who I live with. I have no doubts that living in Iowa City will be a breath of fresh air. In fact, I'm already looking forward to the more liberal atmosphere of that city. But... I have already accepted the fact that I am going to have a rough time adjusting to college life for the simple reason that I will not be seeing the five or six people that I can turn to for anything on a regular basis.
I'm not really sure where this blog post is going since I didn't have a particular agenda or a message to get across, but that's what has been on my mind.
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