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NYC with Dana in 17 days! :)

NYC with Dana in 17 days! :)

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton (via sorealsorealsoreal)
Everyone gets to be young, especially when you are.
One Tree Hill
Today was a good day :)

Ree Ree and I were talking yesterday about how we have to make the most out of every day. This is our last summer of the first major chapter of our lives, and I refuse to spend every day sitting and doing nothing. I want to make everything I do count and everything I say meaningful, because as sad as it is, this could be my last summer with a lot of my friends. That’s why I poured my heart out in everyone’s yearbooks. My mom told me that I shouldn’t and that it would be embarrassing, but where would we be if we held back everything we wanted to say just because it would be embarrassing.
Today, my family and I went to the whitewater center and I went kayaking and rock climbing and zip lining, which are all things that I normally would never do. But I decided to feel adventurous and take a few risks, and I think they made a good start to summer 2012 :)

A description of the Duke dining plans, as seen on the Duke website.

Plan G: For light eaters or people who snack on the run.

Plan H: For moderate eaters.

Plan I: For enthusiastic, hearty eaters.

Most definitely Plan I…

Sometimes I feel like everybody means a lot more to me than I mean to everybody else.