Right now I feel like my life is currently composed of all the cliche sayings that people associate with high school, graduating, and growing up.
People used to always tell me “Oh high school will be over before you know it. Senior year will fly by.” And of course I didn’t believe them, all I could think about was how badly I wanted high school to be over so I could finally be a young adult and enjoy all the perks of being independent and grown up.
But now I find myself sitting here with only a few real days of my high school career left and I just wondering ‘where the heck did all the time go?’ Everyone was right. My senior year was over in the blink of an eye, I feel like. And I honestly don’t even know how I feel about this. One day, all of you will or have been in my shoes so you understand this weird, mixed-emotion, bittersweet moment when you realize you are growing up a lot quicker than you anticipated.
It feels like just yesterday that I was roaming the halls of Central Junior High thinking I was so cool because I was a freshman and we were the big boys on campus.
But the weird part is, I spent the majority of my senior year complaining about how much I hated school and how I couldn’t wait to get out of this place. But look at me now, I find myself reminiscing on all the great memories that were made throughout my high school career.
If there’s anything that I leave at Har-Ber High School (besides my great reputation and endless amount of entertaining stories and pranks) it would be some words of wisdom for all my underclassmen. DO NOT WASTE YOUR HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE. Go out and do fun and wild things while you can and make memories. I’m not advertising that anyone go out and do stupid things to get themselves arrested. But right now we are teenagers, and this is the only time in your life that it will be somewhat except able for you live life a little on the edge.
You don’t want to look back on high school and not have any fascinating stories to tell your kids.