Late to Leave

My time in the High School Youth Group is drawing to a close.
"Wait, high school?" you say. "During the school year all you could blog about was college!"
Yes. . . . . . . . . . .
It's been a habit. I hold onto things (groups) longer than I need to, and I always have one excuse or another.
When I was a youngling and we went to our current church for the first time, I was scared to be in the 5&6 grade class all alone. So I stayed behind in the 3&4 grade class with my brother. I think I ended up in the right class during sixth grade, but when it was time for me to go to Jr high, I was a little young for my grade and the kids program was starting this new and hilarious (at the time) curriculum. So half the time I worked with two year olds and the other half I went to KIDMO.
After spending my shortened time in Jr high, I stayed a year longer, under the guise of "staying with the people my age" which really meant a certain person my age. Ahem. I'm still glad I stayed back though. Pretty sure that was the year Peggy and Emma and Bethany and I really started hanging out.
And finally I made it to the high school group. Spent some great and awesome times in it. And eventually, it was time to go once again. A year ago. But I'd stay through the summer of course. Oh and then the whole next year, too, because the college group was a night I wasn't in town, and I was still technically young enough for the high school group, and besides, my parents needed me to drive Justin and Kelsey...

Heh.
I think I'm in a good place now, though. Holding back at each transition has made it very easy to let go a year later, because then I really feel like I'm growing out of it. I'm ready to leave and it's not painful.

ON TO REAL LIFE AND POSSIBLY DILLY-DALLYING IN THE COLLEGE GROUP