I have been wanting to write about this for a long time, ever since I had to take a taxi to school and the cabbie told me that these are the best years of my life. You hear it all the time, everywhere; high school is the best four years of your life. On Monday the words came back to me, someone else was saying high school was and would be the best years of your life.
I don't get it.
Why would anyone want the best years of their life to be the ones that includes the stressful days of exams, cramming to finish an essay and the drama? Personally, I love high school. I love my friends and I love the memories that we are making throughout the halls of my school. But high school will only be the best years of your life if you let it.
I fully intend on not letting the late nights of stressing, the long days of classes, the thousands of pages of notes and the petty drama of who did what be my glory days. No. I intend on graduating and going out into this crazy world to obtain a degree and kick ass in the writing field. Naive? Perhaps. But I hold onto the hope that there is so much more out the waiting for me than studying to pass a test or exam.
To be honest, I hated high school. A lot. I couldn't wait to graduated and go away to a place with more refined, open-minded people. I ended up going to a college that was a snobbier version of high school. Yeah...not fun. High school is merely a stepping stone, preparation for the years to come during which you will hopefully mature and learn more about yourself than you've ever known before. It's not necessarily an easy journey, but I've found life after high school to be much more fulfilling than those four years were. I still think about high school often and how much time I wasted trying to be like other people and wishing I could just "fit in." I still deal with the ramifications of doing that today, and I am trying very hard to get over it. Don't worry, high school isn't the end, it's merely one of the means.
ReplyDeleteThank you, it is great to hear from someone who thinks along the same lines as me and understands what I am trying to say!
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