The One Where Journeys Are Explained

 One of our first assignments for our Journey in Literature class was to keep a "Journey Journal" and decorate it with a collage portraying your journeys in life. Mine is is divided in two, my emotional/personal journeys & my physical journeys.

Personal Journeys 

  The first two pictures on top represent the beginning (and end) of one of my favorite journeys. The people in these pictures are my best friends. From left to right in the picture on the top left: there's Abneris who I've known for almost 6 years, Davianna who I've known for 8 years, Anibal who I've known for 11 years (yeah, more than half my life), me and Karina who I've not spoken to in 2 years because we grew apart. But the first few people I mentioned,  the ones who spent 6 to 11 years with me, our friendship was one that we said would last for the ages and we sincerely meant it. But as it sometimes inevitably happens you start to drift apart and divide even in the moments you need each other the most and you start to see how much you've all changed after going from spending 8 hours together 5 days a week for most of your Elementary/Middle/High School Education to going to different Universities and still communicating but barely seeing each other once every few months. They say this is the test of true friendship, being able to be apart for long periods of time and trusting everything will still be the same, that you'll still be as close as ever once you do see or speak to each other again. Some friendships are able to get through this, but apparently ours is not.

And so it comes to the quote directly below the graduation picture:

 I added this is the sense that we always swore we would never drift apart, and it was actually one of my greatest fears

The picture next to the quote is the newest person to join my journey, her name is Andrea and I've barely known her a year and half and she has become one of my closest friends. She was there for me during my transfer from the Polytechnic University to UPR is currently cheering from the sidelines with my best friend while I complete my transfer to Johnson & Wales. The pictures below the quote and Andrea show the most recent parts of my journey; the first is me and another friend helping my best friend cope with her mother moving, the second is one of my favorite quotes and the last words of a dearly departed companion in Doctor Who, Clara Oswald, while for different reasons I am also asking to be brave in the face of what is happening and what is to come in the next picture which is my future University.

The last two pictures are also quotes, the first one from the musical Wicked and...well, it speaks for it self. The second quote is my favorite quote from Harry Potter:

This is where I'm actually at right now, trying to find my happiness. Trying to remember to turn on the light instead of remaining in darkness.

Physical Journeys

 These are some of my favorite trips. The top left one is when I went to Halloween Horror Nights in 2014 with my best friend, her sister and her mom. The top right one was also with my best friends family, it was actually last December I went with her to Texas to visit her mom and we took a Road Trip ( 13 HOURS OMG) to Georgia to visit her grandma.The middle left picture was my first time to NYC in 2013, I took that picture from the top of the Empire State Building. The middle picture was last November (2015) on my second trip to New York where I was mostly confined to my aunts apartment in Harlem, at first it was because I had to write an essay for my psychology class but then it was because I got sick. The middle right picture was on the trip to Atlanta, GA last December too as is the bottom left picture. The bottom middle picture was the view from the plane as it descended in Houston, TX last December. And, finally, the bottom right picture is the Playbill from Matilda which was one of the few outing I did get to go to last November in NYC even if I was sick. 

And that is all ladies, gents, and celestial beings. Until next time!