Matured?

...like a good bottle of wine.

Sorry.

I handled a situation today/yesterday superbly, I think, and I felt I dealt with it in a very mature way.

Ok, enough with the camp counselor speak. Guys, I am awesome. I have grown so much emotionally... and I surprise myself all the time by how much I continue to grow and how I am able to deal with things and handle matters. Every year I continue to grow... and I expect it's because each year has thrown a new challenge in my way. Moving out to University in first year, going out with Ian in second year, dealing with the break-up and multiple asking-outs in third year, and going to camp in the summer.

People think there's not a very large age difference between say 17 and 21, but oh my goodness there is! Throw this situation at me when i was 17 and I would've handled it... but not very well and have totally freaked out and been morose and freaked for days, maybe weeks.

To be fair I kind of freaked out today... but that was from all sorts of stuff including class politics, karate captaincy, dissertation, and kind of stuff mentioned above. It's all just been sitting on my shoulders for a while but I think the class politics pushed it overboard and I had to go home and drink tea and listen to swing music and talk to A.lex to clear my head and the negativity. I also kind of exploded onto Andrew I think... I was eating my lunch and talking to him and I just started coming out with "and then also this is really stressing me out.... and this... and this!"

However now I'm fine. I'm not sure karate helped, but it might've. Now I'm going to bed.