Day by day things don't seem to change, but when you look back everything is different. I've changed so much in just this last year wehn I look at everything in perspective, but really it felt like the same stuff on a different day. I like to think of these changes in your life as the seasons in a year, starting with spring and ending as cold as the winter's chill. I'm between spring and summer. When I was in kindergarten, I wore a pair of 11 1/2 teenage mutant ninja turtle shoes, now it's the same number in men's chucks. A lot of childish thoughts when I was younger, now bigger things are on my mind. The eggs came crashing down when I was with the wrong crowd, now I choose my friends wisely.

My physical features show that I am not a kid but not a man. This proves my struggle between spring and summer. I stand 5' 9", about 160, so you know i'm not a small child. My little mustache is slowly coming in displaying manhood. By this age, I dress to impress unlike my younger days just wearing anything besides my birthday suit. On the other hand, some of my babyface characteristics ultimately prove I am not a man yet.

If you could be inside my head, you would know about my summer thoughts. Plans for my future, financial struggles, and school work are constantly bubbling in my brain but i can get easily distracted sometimes. Some spring thought usually involve finding things I can do to have fun and girls. Overall my thoughts balance out keeping me torn between spring and summer.

Friends from the past shaped me socially for the future. They helped me realize what was wrong and right through experiencing it. The childish immature things I used to do was obviously not right. Most of the time the things I was doing wasn't childish, it was just wrong. In the story "Marigolds" by Mari Evans, the main character Lizabeth is faced with the same situation. Be a kid and have fun at any expense or grow up. Like her, it took me having to do something bad to move on to the future. Those were very good friends thought because I would not be the strong person I am today if I didn't know them. Still I am a little more careful choosing my friends now a days.

You now can see why I am still torn between spring and summer. My physical features show that I'm a big boy now. My thoughts are not ones of a child, most of the time. The crowd I put myself in now are better than the ones from the past even though I still have the urge to do some of my old actions. Now that my verdict is in, why don't you go find out what season you are in.