Growing Up

i was reading a friends blog today about goodbyes, and how sad they can be. i personally agree, as i've never liked goodbyes. however goodbyes are going to happen, things end, people leave their homes and start anew, and people eventually leave Earth and start anew in heaven. after reading her entry i thought about one thing that has always scared me.
growing up.
to me growing up has always been an ending. the end of one age, then end of a time, a turning point. i remember Homecoming 2010 when i stepped out of my room wobbling on heels and trying to get downstairs where my friends stood dressed in fancy dresses and suits. i was late, what a surprise. my mom came up from the stairs just in time to see me finish my hair and makeup so she pulled out her phone to take a picture, commented on how pretty i was, how i was going to have such a great time.
then she started talking about when i was a little girl, i would always dress up in this big sparkly pink dress (no matter how itchy it was) i owned. i would claim to be a tom boy, never wanted to be girly but she would always catch me and my friends playing powerpuff girls out on the playground, and hear the stories after a exciting day of school. at this point,  i started to tear up a little. i had never been good with growing up. but it was a fact of life that was always going to be there. every new day i would be growing up, little by little inch by inch.
but, today i had a thought. at the end of every goodbye is a hello! one day when i grow up and go to college i'll be saying hello to a new place and new people. when i leave college and grow up to have a job and get married i'll be saying hello to another new world. yeah its a goodbye and i'll be sad, but its a hello in the end.
thats my little thought of the day, have a wonderful wednesday! :)