I'm feeling kinda bummed.

Everything's changing. That's tough, you know? Throughout my life, I've made some amazing friends. Sadly, though, we've all got to go our own ways in life. Things change. Since school let out, I've had 2 good friends move away. One being my roommate. I've made another great group of pals over my internship this summer, and now I have to leave them. They've been so awesome to me. I do look forward to seeing a lot of friends I haven't seen in a while when I go back to school, but it's hard to leave. Everyone at Milliken has been so amazing to me, and they all want me to come back once I finish school. Yet, I have other plans... that's hard. I finish college in a year's time. That will be the toughest. I don't know how I'm going to muster the strength to leave my friends and my life there. On top of that, if (when) I go to Boston, I don't have any idea how my family's going to take it. I know I'll make new friends there, but that won't replace the ones I've lost. Every one of my friends has made an impact on my life in some way. That won't change. Some more than others, obviously, but every one counts. *sigh*

I have this Xanga mostly to keep in touch with a lot of folks who I've met through churches, or who I know to be strong Christians.  Therefore, I'm posting this with the hope that you guys will care and take it seriously.

I have a really good friend here in Tennessee.  His name is Roland, and he's a Mechanical Engineering major (started as a Physics major - really smart, hard working guy).  He told me last night that he's been forced to withdraw from school this semester for medical reasons (which he explained to me, but I won't divulge here).  It doesn't matter what it is, just know it's bad enough that he would have to do that.  Anyway, he'll be able to come back next semester, but what's going on is pretty frightening for him and his family.  So my request is this: if you will take this seriously, please pray for him and his family in earnest throughout this semester.  Pray that everything goes smoothly and that he returns healthy next semester.  Also, most of you can understand that being set back a semester, especially in an engineering curriculum, is really hard.  So pray that he'd be able to catch back up and get back into school smoothly (he'll be out until August... that's rough).

For those of you who will, thank you.