The rollercoaster that is life

Some days, you just feel the need to crawl under a rock and disappear.

It's amazing how quickly one can begin to make the transition from being a child into becoming an adult. I know I mentioned in my last entry that I felt I was beginning to grow, but I believe that was nothing compared to the changes which have occurred over the last few weeks.

I've heard it said before that sometimes people experience becoming an adult slowly; a painstaking process that takes many, many years to finalize and cause the person to be stuck between maturity and immaturity for that whole time. Others, it's like one day they just wake up, realizing they are an adult.

It certainly was the latter for me. I won't claim to suddenly be a mature, serious, set in life adult. By no means am I ready to give up certain aspects of my life (and others that, no matter how childish people may claim they are, I will never give up), but there's just so much about me that is... different. It's almost like as soon as I realized I was but a few months away from turning 23, it dawned on me that it was time to grow up.

I hope the changes that have occurred are real, especially the changes in my spiritual life. I've grown much closer with God, and I'm so happy about life. It's not perfect, it's not struggle free, but the good things that are going on, the good situations I am finding myself in, finally outweigh the bad by such an extreme that it's impossible not to be happy and thankful.