I dropped my son off at high school orientation today. As we pulled up to the high school, I told him to have a good day and that I would be praying for him this morning. He looked at me and semi seriously said, "Your not coming in? Your just going to dump me here and abandon me?" To which I responded, "Yes" and hit the unlock button so he could get out of the car.
As I drove away, I thought about Zach's departure from home a couple of months ago when he was getting ready to go to India. He couldn't wait to get in the car and leave and never used phrases like abandoned or dumped!
So it seems like going to high school may be scarier than going to India.
There is probably a good lesson in this. Things that seem big and scary to some of us others take in stride and sometime things that don't seem like a big deal to those of us who have experienced it can seem scary to someone who is going through it for the first time.
I just seems funny that my son is more comfortable traveling half way around the world than he was going to orientation today.
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