Suddenly

So, I go out to dinner with Matt, Sharpe, and Anna on Monday night after practice, and they get to Chili's, and start talking about celebrating. Apparently Sharpe got a call from a company in Berkly, CA on Monday about a job and is flying out of Nashville on SUNDAY! SEVEN DAYS after he got the call! And I am super happy for him, because I know this is what he has been waiting for, a job, a good job, not a crappy one at the gun warehouse. But it is so sudden, and I almost think that it's better, because then no one really has time to dwell on it and dread the fact that he has to leave. But still. Sharpe has been there from the beginning. He was one of the very first people I met when I got to school and started playing Ultimate, and he's just been around for the last three years. We've had classes together and all of that in the last year, and we are Settler's buddies (with Anna too!). It's just weird that people are actually starting to leave, people that I am close with. But the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped looking at people leaving as a bad thing, and started looking at it as a good thing... places to stay when I want to make a trip! And I know that Sharpe and I aren't the best of friends, but we are close, so it's sad. But I am happy for him too!
Tina and B.V. from Nooga are also heading out! They are moving to Jackson Hole, WY (I think... almost 100%) in less than a month also so they can just live and work for the next nine months or so while B.V. wait to hear from medical schools to see which one's he got into. BV is going to be a great Dr! AND Anna is leaving in two weeks to start her job in D.C.! AHHH!
I think that this is why I can't really stay in Knoxville after I graduate. The people that I've gotten really close to are leaving, and once they are gone, I won't feel like I belong here... hell I don't feel like I belong here anyway! It's so strange to be somewhere and then you realize that you can't wait to leave, but a small part of you is dreading it also. I think that meeting so many people this club season made me want to take that next leap into life, and hopefully I'll land in ATL. Stace wants to move there too, so that is fun, and that is where my life has been for basically the last three months... the time I was MIA because I was playing way too much ultimate!!! I guess taking leave from friends can be hard, but it also means that we are all growing up and moving on. I guess you really can't stay in college forever.