subway rides and basketball
Today was probably one of the best days I’ve had in a long time. Some could say it was a nice way to start the summer (even though I’m not technically done…).
I decided to go to Flushing today. I haven’t been there in a long time and having gone today, I really do wish I went more often these past couple of years. I kind of didn’t want to go because of the long commute. It takes almost an hour and throughout my high school years, I have developed a general dislike for the 7 train. It runs too slow with too many stops and way too many people taking way too long.
But today, I didn’t mind the long train ride. I even enjoyed it. I like long train rides because they are the perfect time to just think about nothing in particular. I feel like these past couple of weeks I just had so much stuff on my mind regarding life and given all the studying I had to do for finals I didn’t really have much time to sort through all that stuff. So I just kind of pushed it into the back of my mind and tried to forget about it. But when you have a lot of stuff in your mind and you just try to push all that stuff out, it eats away at you. It’s never truly forgotten, always lurking there until it is addressed. Well what better time to address such thoughts than a long train ride by yourself with nothing else to do right?
I won’t go into the details of what these thoughts were. Not here. Basically, it was a good subway ride.
The reason I went to Flushing today was to play basketball with friends at my home church. I haven’t seen them in forever and I haven’t played basketball in forever haha. Well playing basketball today was probably the most fun I’ve had in a long time even though I sucked…hahaha (hopefully I’ll play a lot more this summer so I can get…to a respectable level at least).
The best part about it was seeing everyone again. It’s been so long and yet it feels like not too long ago, I was still in high school going out to church every weekend. I miss those days a lot. And as I continue to get older, and those days continue to get farther and farther away in my past, I continue to miss them more.
But those days are in the past and I can never go back to them, so there’s no point in just missing them and dwelling on them. The only thing I can do now is look to the future and make that as awesome as it can be. Relationships take a lot to maintain and they can be exhausting. They’re hard and they require everyone involved to invest a little bit of themselves. Looking back on these past couple of years, I haven’t invested nearly as much into these old relationships as I would’ve liked. Actually, I haven’t invested much of anything at all. But the great thing about true friendship is that even though there hasn’t been much investment for a period of time, that relationship is always still there waiting to be built upon.
