So my sister Candice is a Junior in high school, and tonight is her Junior prom. She's been to prom before, her boyfriend is a senior so she knows what to expect and stuff, but it just hit me how old she is. Candice turned 17 two days ago, she has her license, she has a job, and she is so close to applying to college and leaving me behind. Her boyfriend, who's like my brother, is leaving in a few months too, and it's so overwhelming. All three of us hang out all the time, and to think that that'll never happen again once he goes to college is so... weird. It's weird because that's life as I know it; I go to school with my sister in the car, and once I get home from practice both of them are usually at the dinner table when I join them. In a year, that won't be the case anymore.
I remember Candice's 15th birthday so vividly. We went out for Mexican food, and at the time I thought she was so old- she was a real teenager. I swear I blinked and the past two years vanished. I'm the fifteen year old now, and I'm the teenager. Candice is practically an adult, and I bet you I'll blink again and she'll have graduated from college.
It's crazy how fast time flies by. How one day, instead of driving to school together we'll meet up for lunch god knows where and discuss how our careers are going. One day, I'll be watching her get married, and one day I'll have nieces and nephews. One day, we might not live in Woburn, and we might forget the little details of our teen years- like how we walked to our dad's house every Tuesday and Wednesday at 5pm sharp, or how we'd always run into eachother in the kitchen right before 6am on the weekdays. I might be thinking a little bit too far ahead of myself on this one, but one day life as we know it will be life as we knew it, and by then, hopefully we take our families together on vacation, and watch our children play together and remember what it was like to be little kids.
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