Well Odyssey,

It's been some time since I last wrote.

I feel as if I have abandoned everything I enjoyed for this semester of school.

I would apologize, but that would mean I regret it, and darling I'm not sure I do.

These last couple weeks I have maintained a decent GPA, had some much-needed family time and I plan to do the same next week with it being Thanksgiving and all.

All the things I have to be thankful for are coming to a screeching halt and I'm terrified as HECK.

Next year, I go to live in a different city, where I will know all of three people and as exciting as that is, it's so scary.

If there's been one thing of constant reassurance for me, its that I'm getting out.

People say you always come back and that your hometown is never as bad as you make it out to be. However, my friends, this town of mine is so much worse.

Since when did people with promising futures allude to minimum wage jobs at the local mall?

The ones you saw get excited about getting accepted to out of state colleges and so on. The ones that didn't go to college, or didn't even leave their parent's house.

I've promised myself first and foremost this will not be my fate. I refuse to settle for a mediocre life when there is an extraordinary world at my fingertips.

My dear readers, no matter your age, I wish this true for all of you.

I'm sorry this post is a little bit of everything but isn't that what writing is?

Don't settle for the hometown school because he is going there. You are meant to become a different person and that person may not love him anymore and that is okay.

Don't settle for the college all your classmates seem to go to because darling, you can be anything in this world -- just make it a good anything.

That's all from me kids.