Journal 1

     Today, I went back to my old high school. It was not anything like i remembered. It must have been renovated or something because it looked brand new and shiny. "I didn't entirely like this glossy new surface,"(pg. 1) I thought to myself. As I was standing in there, my thoughts drifted to a time fifteen years ago. There was a tree. Our tree. This is where it all started, Devon school, the tree, everything.
     As I walked through the woods, memories flashed in my head the entire way: classes, sports. . . Finny. As he entered my mind i came up to the tree. This also seemed different because back in the day it seemed like it was the only tree next to the river. But now it was "Stripped by the cold season and weary from age, enfeebled, dry,"(pg. 6) were my thoughts. But Finny, he entered my mind once again. My friend, my best friend, my brother, but at the same time, my opponent. Fifteen years ago at this very spot was where everything began. "We were the best of friends at that moment."(pg. 10) I began thinking of my earliest memories of Finny and I: the missed dinner, but most of all, the accident. The accident that started all of these mishaps.