It’s safe to say not many kids like high school. They might like sports, or seeing friends everyday, or even learning, but most would say they don’t look forward to waking up early and spending hours in classrooms to go home and do more homework five days a week. I fall into this category.
High school especially has been a really hard time of my life between the world shutting down and a full plethora of health and personal issues. High School gives me such a great amount of stress as I’m sure it does to most others and I cannot wait until I can walk across the stage and hear my name called at graduation. To graduate will be a weight lifted off my shoulders that I’ve been carrying for almost 12 years worth of math, science, english and history. Graduation is the light at the end saying that all the hard work we had done has paid off and it was all worth it.
However High School also brought more than just an education. It’s where I became the person I am now and the person I will be five years from now. There was love, and heartbreaks, and friendships and memories. All because of High School. Graduation is bittersweet in that most of us all have to go our separate ways to never speak again, but we won’t forget all the memories we made. The memories that we’ll look back on in 10, 15, 20 years and laugh about the time my car blew up at a Dutch Bros, or the week in 2020 with 13 different fights, or dress up days and games and dances. All memories that helped shape us.
Graduation will be the end of our childhoods. We’ll say goodbye to people we’ve known since elementary school and the ones we just met. It’s not just a new chapter in our lives but a whole new book, filled with new people and places and memories to make, and it starts as soon as we walk across that stage and hear our name called.
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