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Turning 20
Payton Stark

It is hard to believe that I will be turning twenty soon. Honestly it doesn't feel that real. I still feel like a kid, and the older I get the younger I feel. Part of me wishes that I could just pause at 19 for a while and take it all in, before I make the jump. Than again I am just turning 20. That is still quite young, but I feel responsibility starting to rear its head. Half of me feels like that kid who is many years in the past, and the other half feels older than my actual age. I can already feel that this summer will be very good for me. I have a lot planned with some really good friends. It will offer me rest, but I will also be looking for work and playing music hopefully. I have been doing a lot of thinking, and this time it is positive thinking on the most part. I think I am ready for twenty to role around, as crazy as it sounds. Its weird watching me and my brothers grow up, with my oldest brother getting married, and both of them seeking jobs in their fields. I'm optimistic to see what the future holds for me, and each turn seem to bring me somewhere else, but that somewhere else always leads to a better place. This summer is going to be a big one, one for the books in-fact as my best friend Lukas keeps quoting. Right now I am just happy to be alive and am planing on taking every day at a time.


With all of this being said I also am very happy to be back with my friends from high school, well the small group of rag tag kids that I still hang out with. I love all my friends at Judson, but there are things that me and those friends went through at our high school that makes reconnecting with them truly something special. With songs like the ones below being anthems to our high school years it's not hard to see we didn't exactly have the most pleasant experience, but our bond has truly become something. I love those guys. I couldn't be more happy to break the twenty with those friends that helped me make it through some of the worst times of my life making them some of the best times of my life.



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