My 24th

Dear FutureMe, Well this year has been one of many new and exciting things. I managed to leave home and almost make it on my own. My friends have been amazing. I got a new job, a real job with benefits and everything. I've been thru my share of failed relationships. My parents are having a hard time with this whole growing up thing. My family lives 300 miles away and they are still trying to run my life. I just don't understand how my dad can think that I somehow owe that to him. I am dreading going home for the holidays, anticipating the falling out that is bound to happen. My parents will disown me and I wish I could say I was devastated about it. But honestly, I can't care anymore. So I guess I'm just wondering, are they talking to me again yet? Has my sister finally come back in contact with the real world and gotten a job? Or gone back to school? Or gotten her license? Is she still with Josh, or did she get back with Kyle? Are we FINALLY in the house? And am I still there or did I meet someone and move out. So much has happened in my first year away from home, I can't even imagine what else I have in store for me. Little by little I am learning not only to love my life, but to love myself.