A Moment With Henry: Breakaway

"Do you remember when we didn't care? We were just two kids who took the moment when it was there." - Another Heart Calls

Things about Provo I'm going to miss:

• going to concerts with Nate
• Gilmore Girls with Shena and sometimes Smalls
• Sunday night movies with Stephen, Lindsey, and Kyla (and various and sundry other people)
• Monday night movies in the park with Steve, Shena and Sarah
• discussing music, movies, and television with Nate
• Guru's and Hello Yogurt
• late night discussions with Shena
• late night discussions/ book club with Tyler
• doing anything and everything with Alicia
• complaining about guys and dating with Shena and Jackie, and sometimes Sarah
• pumpkin parties
• evening walks and feeling safe
• feeding old people lunch (Meals on Wheels)
• being hopeful about the future, and being surrounded by friends and fun
• happy memories of being in love, spots of first kisses (and seconds, and thirds),retracing the steps we took on those lost summer nights, being back there by your side

"I see, see shadows, of who we'll always be, when I drive, drive these roads, that made our memories." - Shadows and Regrets

Things about Provo I won't miss:

• the crappy roads and lack of parking
• the busses that smell like urine and cats
• feeling old at 23
• crappy apartment management, that does stupid things like shred my rent check... >:{
• painful memories of being heartbroken and betrayed by the one person I loved and needed more than anyone else and remembering when I didn't have to remember when times were better than this

So, in pondering this week, and leaving Provo for real this time to move on to something new, I've had many a song that has stuck with me (if you couldn't tell already.) I hate to admit it, but Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" describes my feelings about moving to Vermont better than any other song. I've done a lot of growing up in this small town over the past five years, and I'm ready to see what the world holds for me.

Grew up in a small town

And when the rain would fall down

I'd just stare out my window

Dreaming of what could be

And if I'd end up happy

I would pray

Trying hard to reach out

But when I tried to speak out

Felt like no one could hear me

Wanted to belong here

But something felt so wrong here

So I'd pray

I could break away

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly.

I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

I'll make a wish, take a chance,

Make a change, and break away.

Out of the darkness and into the sun.

But I won't forget all the ones that I love.

I'll take a risk, take a chance,

Make a change, and break away

Wanna feel the warm breeze

Sleep under a palm tree

Feel the rush of the ocean

Get onboard a fast train

Travel on a jetplane

Far away

And break away

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly.

I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

I'll make a wish, take a chance,

Make a change, and break away.

Out of the darkness and into the sun.

But I won't forget all the ones that I love.

I'll take a risk, take a chance,

Make a change, and break away

Buildings with a hundred floors

Swinging round revolving doors

Maybe I don’t know where they’ll take me

Gotta keep movin on movin on

Fly away

Break away

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly.

Though it’s not easy to tell you goodbye

Take a risk, take a chance,

Make a change, and break away.

Out of the darkness and into the sun.

But I won't forget the place I come from

I gotta take a risk, take a chance,

Make a change, and break away

Breakaway

Break away