Camp is like a roller coaster- sometimes arms are up and you are lost in joy, elation, enjoying the ride, other times you are holding on for dear life, just praying to make it through. There's no time to think, to live your real life, for personal time or breaks- you must be completely present for the kids and the staff. It is a wonderful, exhausting, life changing ride, but it is also 3 month pause in real life, at the end of which I find myself shaking my head thinking, "was that a dream or did I really just live through that whirlwind???"
4 months ago I began dating a wonderful guy, and while I'm taking this relationship one day at a time, not getting ahead of myself or allowing the excitement of new romance to cloud my judgement, I will admit that I can very easily imagine a future together.
Which makes leaving for camp this summer a little scary. It's a 3 hour drive, but city life and camp are worlds apart. The BF and I have pretty much been together every evening since we started dating, so adjusting to seeing each other every few weeks will be different. If the situation was reversed, I'm not sure how easy going I would be about him leaving. Luckily for me, he is a much more understanding person than I am and he is not worried.
Camp is my life, so it's important that my relationship is able to fit in with my lifestyle. I know that if we make it through the next 4 months, our relationship will be stronger and the future I keep imagining will be a possibility. I also know that if it doesn't work out, as sad as I will be, it just means that it was never going to work out anyway. But I really like him. A lot. So the thought of that makes me anxious and sad and apprehensive about heading off to the woods. I'm trying to be zen-like, but I really don't want to lose my boyfriend this summer.
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