2023/Ta'Lea -21039

I wonder what it's like to stay in one place for most of your life, to be able to have a friend since childhood that you fall out of contact with for a reason other than: Not enough texts or calls. I bet that most people who have never moved away find their home bland, repetitive or maybe even boring, maybe those people want to move around as much as I do. To that I say, as a military baby who didn't realize what she was missing until sophomore year, now that high school is moving in slow motion, I've got plenty of sleepless nights to think on these phone numbers written on a faded paper in black pen. The numbers I look at each time I'm throwing out junk, the friends I've held onto without realizing it. The optimistic part of me wants me to dial the numbers and check in on them but the sinking feeling in my chest reminds me that I've changed, and so have they. So I wonder if this is how it's supposed to be...