Pre-Formal

Last Sunday I went to the Stewart's house for lunch (and some more dance practice). It was heaps of fun and the adrenaline is flowing through me with such anticipation of my formal night. Why's my formal important to me? The formal is important because this is my last year of High School, after this year I am moving out into the world, I'm leaving the people I love (by not seeing them on such a regular basis) and moving down south to Otago University. (I applied yesterday). That of course doesn't mean I won't be coming back home every chance I get. But this formal marks the end of my schooling and the beginning of the big wide world. I want to work in the world doing something I love and at the same time being able to support a family I one day hope to have. The formal marks the beginning of this new life I'm headed into. It's important to me because this is where I get to see my school friends in all their glammer, out of school, elegant, a different side to them, and not nessesarily a façade of themselves but more so a different angle of their lives. Most of these school acquaintances and friends are people I either won't see ever again or won't see for a long time and I want to have a night that I will remember for the rest of my life, a distinct marker that not only remembers those people who influenced my schooling life and therefore impacted my wider life also, but also to remember the best time I had with them most distinctly. This is most likely the last school formal I will ever go to and therefore it is even more memorable and important to me than if it were otherwise. I bought a suit a week or so ago and I completed it yesterday when I bought my shoes (the last item I needed to conclude the whole suit) It won't be the last time I put the suit on and everytime I do will be memorable for this formal and for any other time I feel the need to dress up for a special occassion. I believe that everything that happens at the Formal is a part of God's will for my life and all the circumstances that have lead up to it have been influenced by His firm, omnipotent hand. There is not much I can do now but be excited and spend time with God asking for His divine influence on Saturday so that I, and those I go with, will walk down the path God has set for us with a loving heart and a synonymous (to God's) mind. I've realised that the more time I spend with God in my day, the more time He spends with me. And I can see it by reflecting on my own life. So thanks God! I really appreciate the time you've put into my life to make marvellous, wonderful, unbelievable, miraculous circumstances unfold in my life!