How strange...

Have you ever experienced something, and no one else really understands unless they experienced it too. 

Like if you go on a trip and then come back and instead of everything being changed, like you, it's the same as you left it.

Recently I went on a trip to Ottawa with Forum for Young Canadians, a program where grades 10-12 students from across the country gather to Ottawa to learn about our government and politics in general.

It was the most amazing thing I've ever experienced in my entire life. 

But when I came home, I felt different and to my utter surprise no one else did.

I wish everyone could experience Forum, so that they'd know how amazing it is and so that they could talk about it with me because they're genuinely interested. 

Unfortunately reality doesn't work like that. Until it does I'll just have to keep in contact with my new buds and avoid conversations about Forum around people who haven't been. 

It's a little disheartening but that's life and it's worth it for what I experienced. A week full of memories to last a lifetime.