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Re: Halo - a look back over seven years | |
Posted By: Jillybean | Date: 11/15/08 10:19 a.m. |
In Response To: Halo - a look back over seven years (Louis Wu) New York! New York! Okay, this is a weird one, but it means something to me. 2006 was a shit year for me. My mum was seriously ill, we lost our house, people died, and one of my worst fears was made real. My core group of friends went through bad times too, cancer scares, depression, more family troubles for them. I fell out with a girl I'd known since I was five years old. It couldn't get much worse (indeed - if it had gotten much worse I would now be someone very different) So going to New York at the end of 2006 was a way for me to draw a line under the whole year. I did something I'd always wanted to do, with people I really wanted to meet. I had what I can genuinely call one of the greatest times of my life with people I would never have met without Halo. Without Halo, without that opportunity, would I have had the strength to move away from my family for my work placement? Would I have been capable of supporting my best friend now that she's in the same situation I was? Would I have made amends with my other friend? Maybe I would have, but fortune had it that I started 2007 feeling great. And that would never have happened without Halo. Even two years later, thinking back on that year makes me cry, and thinking back over those four days makes me grin like a loon.
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