Wide Open Spaces

Wide Open Spaces By The Dixie Chicks

Who doesn't know what I'm talking about
Who's never left home, who's never struck out
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone

Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dream no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed

[Chorus:]
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes

She traveled this road as a child
Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test

[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the high stakes

As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my girl"
She said, "It didn't seem like that long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know

[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes

I felt like these lyrics were fitting for my life right now with my first year of college ending, I can relate with this song a lot. I left home 9 months ago not knowing what to I came out west, well to west Texas that is, and I have changed a lot in those 9 months for the better. I do not feel like I have made any mistakes I know that i'm not perfect but I feel like everything is a learning experience. Yeah i changed my major but I do not think that coming into college as a theatre major was a mistake. Many people may think just up and changing yoexpect ur major would mean that having that major in the first place was a mistake but not for me it wasn't i learned so much from being in theatre this year and that biggest thing that i learned was that i need to stop letting it be my security blanket cause i dont need one. I have met people this year that i know i will be friends with forever that will be in my wedding and believe me that is saying a lot , if you know what kind of wedding i want. I miss home i feel like the 3 weeks between easter and now have been a life time and i just to be able to sleep in my own bed and wake up in the mournings and lay around the house and watch time and i dont think that is to much to ask for lol. I know that this summer is going to be a time for me to grow and i'm excited to see what that brings. I could never tell anyone why but i'm always happiest in the summer, not like i'm unhappy the rest of the year but summer is always just what i need. :)