It's not the pale moon
that excites me
that thrills and delights me
oh no
it's just the nearness of you

I started my class at NCSU this past week. It is the closest college campus to me, yet I feel like I'm in a completely different world. Hillsborough Street is not the same Hillsborough Street that I had once thought. And so I found that the saying is true: It's not where you are, it's who you're with.

I've been around everyone I want to be with in the past few days. I suppose counting down the days, weeks, months until it all ends puts a damper on everything. Each part of life is a life in itself. It has a birth, and it has a death, and everything in between is life. Some lives continue beyond the deaths of others. They overlap. To spend life thinking about death is not living at all. I'll just enjoy this one while it lasts. There are other lives to be lived and to continue living after June.