• Nadia Schooner
    May 15th, 2008 Present Day


    It has been about four years since that one afternoon at the campus coffee shop. I constantly think of that day, anytime and every time I get tired of my life. I was finally headed off to graduate school. Ready to find my place in this world and ready to start my life. I laugh to myself whenever, I think about those two guys, I met that day. They were so crazy, wonderful, energetic, and optimistic.
    We all had an amazing time getting to know one another, living as if our lives were going to end. I think back now and wish that I would have taken more time getting to know myself like they both did.
    It’s amazing, just thinking about how one small moment in time could have such impact on an individual. Those guys were the breath of fresh air that I needed and yet I could never have imagined, all that they would add to my very existence. Unknowingly, they would change me in a way that mere words can not even describe. In those four years they taught me about laughter, love, self but the greatest gift from them was the lesson I carry till this day about this journey we call life.
    People always say, life is ever changing like the river, its true I just never imagined that it would be them, that they would or could have the ability to change me. I was steadfast as far as my goals, determined to use my brains to succeed, the eye on the prize mentality that was me. My world, my river was now changing and flowing at a speed that even I could not have imagined, and we were to become as intertwined and as important to one another as the river bed is to the water it carries.