~The expert mover~

 Okay, well the title says it all. 'The expert mover' should be one of my titles. I should put it with my description, 'I play saxophone, I sing, I like piano, oh and I'm an expert mover'. Yes, I think that sounds good. :D Well I put together a picture (the one below) of me, and all the places I've lived. Its a longer list than most people might expect from a fourteen year-old. Yet, I truthfully can say I have lived all those places.
  As you can see, I'm not exactly smiling in the picture. And I think you can guess why. Moving (especially far away) is not always a pleasant thing. Its bittersweet really. Sometimes, its is fun to move, and the process is actually fun. There are so many new things, people and places to discover. But sometimes you wish you weren't moving at all. I feel both ways, as of now. I'm moving away real soon, actually I think 16 or 17 days. I am excited to see what's in store for me over in another state, but I'm very sad to be leaving. I have been in Illinois for more than half of my life, and well, the idea of leaving - it isn't welcome.
  But I think it's important that when things like this happen, we should look at them objectively. Am I moving for a good reason? Yes. I'm moving because my family is going to go help my grandparents. That's a good reason to move. I am happy to serve my grandparents. Now in the past, we haven't moved for my grandparents, obviously. We moved for other reasons, and some of them I don't know. But I don't always agree with moving. For example the last house in West Chicago. That was one great house.  It was big, had a great yard with a pond, and the street was a dead end, so there were no cars. We backed into the forest preserve. It also had an awesome driveway, and great friends there too. I was very sad to leave there, and it was one of the hardest moves. We also moved the furthest away from the suburbs that we had ever been. It was quite a change to be 45-50 min away from activities that used to be 15-20 min away. It wasn't very agreeable at all. Also, in Sycamore, (which I do love now, and still love) to this day I have no neighborhood friends. These are things that I miss. In my new house, I have also been informed that I probably won't have any neighborhood friends around. *sigh*
  Well in these situations, I have to be content. Whenever I feel sad about it, I remind myself why I'm doing this. When you are leave something, it's usually your parents decision. I'm not blaming my parents, I'm actually complementing them. Often times, the parents see a bigger picture that we don't see. But when we look back, we will thank them for their decision. I know there have been decisions by my parents that I really hated at the time, but now I can thank them for it. I think this is the way I will feel about the move. My parents are funny and they always say 'make new friends, but keep the old ones'. I have decided that that is what I'm going to do. I'm am going to miss all of you terribly. Moving is never easy. But I want to remind everyone to be content and look at the bright side of things. Because we don't always see the big picture, or understand why. In the future, we eventually do though, and that's when we can decide whether it was a good decision or not.And when you are content or realize the decision is right, your picture will look like the one below :D I am a happy expert mover that will always remember and be thankful for great friends!

 

Hope your day has been awesome!

~Hannah~