PDD (Post Disney Depression)

Soooo Natasha requested that I make a new post today, but since I wrote four papers, cleaned the house, and watched the new cycle of ANTM, I didn't have any creative writing left in me, so I'm going to cheat a little by using something I wrote for another purpose. No, not one of those papers I wrote today, although I'm sure you'd love to hear about the idioculture of Redcoat Marching Band. This is actually an unpublished post for my other blog, Hostess with the Mostest. I have like ten posts up on there that are partially finished, but I'm such a slacker that I haven't had time to. 

Anyways, this topic kind of connects to how I'm feeling right now. Applications for the Spring 2012 college program group are up, and I'm wishing that I was back there applying again, totally unaware of the awesomeness I was about to experience. So... here ya go!

"People don't realize how much this experience is going to impact your life. I certainly didn't. Of course there's that amazing sense of possibility and excitement and anxiety before you leave, like you're about to embark on this incredible journey, but you really just don't have any clue what you're in for. Some of the best months of your life. Some of the greatest people you'll ever meet. A chance to do something you never thought possible.

Being away from family and friends is hard, but you know you're going back to them after a few short months. Being away from Disney is awful, because it really is a once in a lifetime experience. Even if you extend. Even if you do a second, or a third, or a sixth program (hey... it happens. There are some people who spend more time at Disney than at college). You're never going to have that same experience with those same people who changed your life in a time where you felt like anything was possible, and it was.

I can't just decide to go watch wishes tonight. I can't hop on the monorail after work for some late-night Laugh Floor. I can't go grab pizza in Italy then creme brulee in France. There will be times when I go back, and things will be amazing again, and I know that Disney is forever changed for me in a way that most people can't understand, but for the time being, I'll just have to live off the memories."

I'll end on a positive note. I think this video is just the cutest, and it reminds me of my childhood so hardcore. Are you crying right now? Because I totally am.