UNC Basketball: Facing Change

Photo by Brett Wilhelm/NCAA Photos via Getty ImagesI’ve never enjoyed goodbyes, going out of my way in a lot of cases to avoid them. I’ve quietly left my share of parties out of a handy side door to avoid making a spectacle of my exit. I sometimes struggle with things coming to an end; I seem to be predisposed to moments of suspension, that feeling of being split between the past and the future and the uncomfortable introspection that it brings. The night before I graduated high school, my best friend and I sat on the tailgate of his truck into the wee hours of the morning, talking and trying to come to grips with the change that was unavoidably coming. The night before I graduated from Appalchian State was much the same; although this one I spent on my own, up on the Blue Ridge Parkway, bidding adieu to my college years and working through the impending shift in my life. I’ve even put off reading the final chapters of books I loved, simply to hold on a little longer.

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