It’s been a week more or less since I took my last step in Idaho on the tarmac of the Boise Airport. Leaving home by yourself and knowing you will be gone for a year will stretch you like you have never been stretched before. This week has been exhausting in every aspect, yet the week has blazed past. There is a gaping space, so big it almost seems physical in my personality. My family and friends were the key to that personality. Now, it seems like half of me is gone and has to somehow rebuild around other people and strangers. This week ha already changed my life, fifty-one more weeks will certainly scar me or strengthen me. I can only look positively into the future, as hard and as daunting as it may be. This is something no one can truly prepare for. You may think you are ready, excited and up to the challenge. When facing reality it’s a whole different ballgame. So here’s to fifty-one more weeks if I can push on through. On that day I hope to take a newer and greater step onto the same tarmac of Boise, a better son, sibling, friend and man.
“Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means…”
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