So long sixteen,
You werent that sweet
I loved the time spent under your wraps, displaying you on my back during hockey, being able to say it proudly, but you reign ends in an hour when the clock rings in october 22nd.
The age of being sixteen was accomplishing my goals, the year of seventeen is changing them. This year included parties, my life in italy, learning new things making new friends, learning italian and learning life lessons. It brought the firsts in life that we all wish to experience and the lasts we all have to but dont want to.
this year in review is not just a collection of me, a collection of my life but more of seeting free. I never found my limit and every year i search . I left things i loved and i grew to love things i never thought i could. ive changed friends , hair and musical inclinations but inside i've never stopped being the internally restless person that i am. dear sixteen, you had a lot to live up to and you took on the challenge. you saw me accomplish two life dreams, discover another and helped me let go of things i thought were more important than they are. you saw me listen to something that once brought me the most joy possible and be responded with me turning it off and refusing to listen to it for many months, you saw me realize that everyone needs a hero, but that i was better off not having one, instead i now strive to be one. you saw me watch as things i did hold in high importance fall apart but at the same tiem i realized they werent. you saw me laugh , cry, dance and fall, fall hard i did but then again dont i always? you saw me pick myself up and dust myself off, you saw me loose control and then take complete control, you saw me dress up and play ladylike and you saw me not brush my hair for almost weeks on end in august. you saw me on my first plane ride and on my first welcome home. you saw me watch as i realized how important some friends are or were and how some had been given to much importance in my life. you saw me think and dream, but better yet you saw me live.
dear sixteen, you werent that sweet witch is good, seeing as how i like sour better anyway.
theres so much importance placed upon you sixteen that im happy to let you go, seventeen will move in tomorrow and i plan to make alot of changes in your abscence, so sit down sixteen and take one last one for the road with me, because its uncharted territory in my paths of memories and thats where your headed
Kaeleigh
R.I.P sixteen
Oct 22 2006 - Oct 22 2007

as the leaves change my heart knows the change is coming

i leap forward blindly into the new year with a tight grip on the past

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