"don't surround yourself with the people who are just fun. surround yourself with people who love God enough to love you enough to hurt you. as you know and will soon know better, not everyone there wants to follow Christ...in fact, most will not. so find the people who love God enough to love you enough to hurt you when you need it." - Caleb McClarren
This is the best piece of advice I've gotten so far about going away to school. Knowing that next year I'm going to have to make all new friends and form all new relationships is really starting to be overwhelming for me. I love my friends here and I haven't been without most of them for longer than a week. Now I'm going to be 3 hours away where I'll be experiencing new things, meeting new people, taking a much harder curriculum in comparison to UT. I don't know how much time I'll have to phone home and I know the relationships that I've formed here are going to change. So when I do something really stupid I'm going to need someone to tell me it was stupid. Oay...I'm going to need to find a new Gretchen and a new Alicia and a new Chelsea. That my friends is going to be impossible. What am I going to do?!
