KnowingTruthIsKnowingYourLies

Let's see. One more full week here in America. Can you even count Hawaii as part of the U.S.? I don't even know....

Yep, I leave with my family for Malaysia next week Wednesday. I am excited and somewhat nervous. But enough of that. I finally decided to start listening to English music! Clap Dear Readers. I have been listening to Japanese stuff for the last three years. I think it is time to move onto music that I can....Oh I don't know, UNDERSTAND?! Ahahaha, sometimes I creep myself out.

Growing up is weird. Every year I look back on who I was a year ago. I changed a lot. I am not as corny or lame....Right? Well, it just seems like I always like my changes. That's good? Or bad? I don't even know...I think differently every year. But the thing is that I still have the same struggles. Ahahaha, funny how that works. Don't you ever look back on how much one year does? I was 16, 10th grade, and I experienced the life of an only child for the first time....IN HAWAII! Talk about sitting on a small AND wet chair.

Along with growing up in a Christian household I never really experienced life as a non-Christian. You know? When I realized I needed a Savior in my young life I never had any RADICAL changes. Following the rules of a Christian house is basically living like a Christian. Praying, obeying your parents, and keeping an orderly life with high standards. Nothing changes outwardly. Inwardly it turns from night to day, but being a human and all that...It's just different. I always think back to before I made my decision. It was so dark and gloomy; it's weird. Now I have clarity and truth, but it doesn't mean everything is fine and dandy.

I can't put my finger on it. I can't say if it is harder to live as a Christian in a Christian family or a Christian when you are a grown, independent adult. Maybe it is all hard. Seeing someone who is 30 or 40 turn from their sinful ways and become a Christian is awesome, but in my life the only thing that changed was my way of thinking. I still have a whole life ahead of me with Jesus, but when I here people say how much they wished they would have been a Christian sooner all I think about is how nice it must have been to sin all you want without a care in the world...But that is probably just my flesh talking.

On another note, I have just experienced the best game out there to date. It's called "The Last of Us." It was just about a post-apocalyptic life; the main character ends up with the task to protect a girl with a possible cure to the epidemic that destroyed the world. I dunno, even though that story has been told before this one just resonated so well with me. I just couldn't help but love it.

Oh, and my senior year is creeping closer and closer. I am starting to get letters and emails from universities telling me to contact them....Ugggg, I just want to enjoy my last year of adolescence, but NO! Gotta get Missingnomer out there into the work force as fast as possible. Can you believe these guys?

I hope this last family vacation will be the bestest....