June 3rd, 2001. It was exactly fifteen years ago Friday. On that day, fifteen years ago, I graduated from high school. Wow! Fifteen years is a long time.
I've been quite reflective this past week, thinking about all that I've done and seen, the places I've been and the people I've met in the last fifteen years. My conclusion, I have been very, very, abundantly, blessed. More than I deserve.
I write letters to myself on my birthday to be opened on another specific birthday yet to come. Somewhere along the line I started setting goals for myself in these letters. I never remember these goals until I open the letter one or five or ten years later. I remember the first few I got really disappointed me because my life after high school wasn't progressing the way I had hoped it would. And then I started to look at the things I had accomplished that I hadn't thought of, hadn't even dreamed of, to include in a letter to myself. As I said, abundantly blessed.
Here I am after graduation with my friend Belinda. Belinda and I met in kindergarten. She is still a dear friend today.
In honor of fifteen years, I wore the same dress I wore to graduation to my church meetings today. Oh yeah, still rockin' the dress.
The dress looks great!! Most people would be thrilled to be wearing a dress they wore in high school fifteen years later! THAT is an accomplishment! You are such a good writer and an inspiration to us all!
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