For all 18 years of my life I've been filtered into the classification of a navy brat. People are never really sure how to look at that category of kids; were they blessed or cursed? For a long time I wasn't even really sure if my predicament was a blessing or a curse. I got to travel around the world for dirt cheap but I didn't have a place that I really could call home. I had so many friends all over the world, but the connections we made were short shallow. I tended to view being a navy brat as a curse, I hated constantly being uprooted from my friends and family so soon after our arrival. It seemed like little to no time passed between when we moved, and if I wasn't moving one of my close friends was. It's a devilish, double edged sword that I'm only now starting to realize is actually full of awesomeness.
Everyday it seems like another piece of the puzzle is revealed to me; another glimmer at how all of that moving around and making friends are truly blessed my life. I just recently found out that my committee co-chair in NHS lived in Japan the same time I did and we attended the same middle school for sixth grade. It then occurred to me to ask her if she knew my best friend from Japan who moved back there during high school. Not only did she know Caroline, but she and Caroline were also best friends while they were there! We talked all the way to school this morning about all the different mutual friends we had with out even being aware of it. It's crazy to think that a girl that I thought I had nothing in common with at the end of last year could have more in common with me than many of my friends now.
Stories like this have been popping up in my life all over the place these days. My description as a "navy brat" which I always thought of to be a curse is now turning out to be a blessing in disguise. People materialize out of no where and we end up having so many connections my brain can't even begin to comprehend.
I know a lot of you aren't navy brats so you don't really get this post at all. But for those of you who are I hope you can relate and view this as an encouragement the next time you face a move and remember that it's only an opportunity for hundreds of more doors to be opened and relationships to be formed.
xoxo,
Abby
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