Dear Pickerington,

I was talking with a friend who I haven't hung out with in some time on the way back from homecoming and he said something along the lines of, "I would be perfectly content with never leaving pickerington." I thought about how I feel about this town that I've called my "hometown" for 9.5 years now. I simply love being here. My friends here mean the world to me. Our school is great. My church. The Marching Band.... Its all parts of what make pickerington my home. I had a fantastic time with my friends tonight. We sat in Culver's past closing laughing so hard our sides throbbed. With it being my junior year and high school, I'm over halfway done. I have less time with some of the people I love than I've spent with them so far. Its a truly saddening thought. I really take the great times we have for granted. I hope to keep in touch with as many people as possible, but I know that college takes away your time, your time for catching up with old friends. I'd love to live here in little old pickerington after college, but what if its not the same. I wonder if the only reason I love it here so much is because my friends are here with me, I'm in the great school. I'm part of my church and the marching bad that will probably not be as great down the road... I can only hope that after I graduate college and come back to this place I call my home that I can just pick up where I'd left off and continue enjoying my life in good old pickerington...