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27th May
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“Closing Time” - Semisonic . i have a thing for cliche graduation songs. last day of formal classes tomorrow, then the senior bbq, and gradnight. yeee buddy.
T-minus 21 hours until gradnight.
23rd May
Scattered Thoughts: High School Nostalgia
With senior year coming to a close, I can’t help but feel nostalgic as I walk through the halls of my high school for the last time as a student. Lately, I’ve been feeling like some esoteric observer amongst a bustling crowd of 1,200 who are just trying to get through their high school career one day at a time. I see myself, and my previous selves, reflected in each and every one of them.
I look at the freshmen: excited, anxious, and most of all naive to what the rest of high school has to offer them. I look at the sophomores, arrogant, thinking that just because they’ve made it through two years that they’re unbreakable. They truly are the “wise fools.” I look at the juniors: tired, burnt out from the sleepless nights, ever hopeful for that light at the end of the tunnel known as senior year.
Then, I look at my fellow seniors. They carry themselves with an air of sophistication and embedded with the pride, principles, and character that the school has instilled within them for the past four years. They’ve grown, for the most part, in immeasurable ways . They’ve reached the apex of their high school experience. Yet, despite this growth, this evolution, I can see within their eyes the same excitement, anxiety, and naivety they had the very first day they stepped onto campus as freshmen.
It’s ironic isn’t it? The duality of it all. Or maybe not. We tend to look at our high school lives as a linear moment in time, a blip that we may want to remember forever or forget altogether. But to do so would be to leave all that I’ve learned, all that I’ve grown to love, all that truly matters to me in the past. I, personally, hope to never truly lose that excitement, that anxiety, and that naivety. Afterall, that’s what makes life worthwhile, that’s what makes everyday a new adventure.
I’m ready for a new adventure, but I’m going to savor this moment, this peak, this culmination of my four years, for a little bit longer.
