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I'm from Greenville, Delaware. It's the most beautiful place in the world and I'm sure where you come from is too. I always get a bit nostalgic when I have to leave it but like Van Morrison says below, nostalgia doesn't always have to negative. It sucks to go, sure, but that's a good thing. It means that I care. I care about my family and friends here. I care about the roads I drive on and even more about where those roads take me. I care that we have no sales tax which, if you didn't know, is awesome.

But the crazy thing is, I don't even think I'm going to move back here after college. I want the West and the freedom it has long brought. In a way, it hurts to leave Delaware now because I know that every time I go I get a little bit closer to no longer living here. But that sadness is negative and with it we get back to what Van was saying: just because you love something doesn't mean it should tether you down. When you say goodbye to anything or anybody there's nothing to do but be happy it happened, even if you're sad it's over. All the material things we grow so attached to, people included, will one day cease to exist. So keep the nostalgia, that's the grateful part, but let the sadness go. It accomplishes nothing. Everything and everybody is constantly coming and going.

Shouldn't you be?


Some photos I took today of the First State included. I told you it was pretty.