A Farewell to What I've Known
Hi. This will probably be the last blog post before I go through major changes in my life. It's kind of crazy, really. I think it finally hit me that I am not a college student anymore. I spent a lot of time on Main St. this summer; hanging out at all the "old" places I would be when I went to school like Shaggy's, Kate's, Grotto's, and it just didn't feel the same. Maybe it was because it was summer time and the bars were empty, but for some reason it didn't feel right.
I've been at home mostly for the past week and a half getting ready for my move to Queens and trying to hang out with everybody I can before I move. However, none of my friends can hang out during the day because they are all working, working somewhere in MD, PA, DE, or some other far away state. There was once a time where I could call up somebody, anybody, at 2pm for a beer a Grotto's and just hang out, but no longer.
(I feel like none of these paragraphs connect...whatever.)
Here's a random story. I was driving home from UD one night when I decided to call someone just to talk, which is pretty rare because I don't talk on the phone often, or for very long. UD is about 30-40 minutes from my house, and I made the call while on 95. I had a very good conversation with this person, but what freaked me out was I was completely engulfed in my conversation with this person, that I felt like I wasn't paying much attention to the road. In fact, about 5 minutes before I got to my house, I was stopped at a red light and I thought to myself "Wow, how did I get here?" I literally could not remember my drive from the time I made the call until I stopped at the red light. It was then I realized that I needed to get out of DE. Why? If I can subconsciously navigate my way through 30% of northern DE, I've been here too long.
And so starts a new book in the series of my life. I think the title of this book will be called "Alan Nguyen and the Hustling Metropolis". Doesn't have the same ring as "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," but I think it has potential to be one of the best books of the series.
I've been at home mostly for the past week and a half getting ready for my move to Queens and trying to hang out with everybody I can before I move. However, none of my friends can hang out during the day because they are all working, working somewhere in MD, PA, DE, or some other far away state. There was once a time where I could call up somebody, anybody, at 2pm for a beer a Grotto's and just hang out, but no longer.
(I feel like none of these paragraphs connect...whatever.)
Here's a random story. I was driving home from UD one night when I decided to call someone just to talk, which is pretty rare because I don't talk on the phone often, or for very long. UD is about 30-40 minutes from my house, and I made the call while on 95. I had a very good conversation with this person, but what freaked me out was I was completely engulfed in my conversation with this person, that I felt like I wasn't paying much attention to the road. In fact, about 5 minutes before I got to my house, I was stopped at a red light and I thought to myself "Wow, how did I get here?" I literally could not remember my drive from the time I made the call until I stopped at the red light. It was then I realized that I needed to get out of DE. Why? If I can subconsciously navigate my way through 30% of northern DE, I've been here too long.
And so starts a new book in the series of my life. I think the title of this book will be called "Alan Nguyen and the Hustling Metropolis". Doesn't have the same ring as "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," but I think it has potential to be one of the best books of the series.
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