Our high school experience is almost over.....
I was out on a hike the other day, and I thought to myself I'm basically 75% done with high school after June. It's gonna be here before we know it. I remember being in kindergarten and going up to the high school and watching plays and being so envious of the kids in high school. I wanted to be just like them. I wanted all of the football games and conversations by lockers before class. I wanted to go to homecoming and cheer for our high school teams. I remember I wanted to have a boyfriend in high school, and I wanted a cute pink car. I fantasied about high school from the moment I knew about it. I would watch endless chick flicks and try to manifest my future to be just like those stars.
High school is absolutely not that glamourous. It's not pink cars and cute boyfriends. It's figuring yourself out and finding your path, and creating a future for yourself. I have a great time at school, but it really can be stressful. Teens don't typically have time for lunches and hangouts after school everyday, there is a lot of cram studying and practices that are hard to plan around. There are not nearly as much parties as Hollywood makes it out to be, and there is much more work. I do have a great group of friends I'm always with, but those huge raves you seen in movies, happen once a month at most (covid probably ruined the chances of that.) By joining clubs I found my interest in law, and I found motiving friends that I hope to have for a lifetime too. I met most of my friends in my AP or Honors classes and am so thankful for them.
I am really grateful for everything that high school has given me and taught me, but it is a lot of work, and it's not as glamorous as shows make it out to be. I definitely think that after writing this COVID really messed up my high school experience. My freshman and sophomore years were so fun. Im sure my freshman year, I had more flings, and went to more get togethers, but the older I get I realized thats not what high school is all about at least not for graduating class. More than ever I see kids more focused on themselves and staying in, and either focusing on sport or grades. It's just different. With graduation coming up in a little over a year for me, I just wonder how different high school would have been without COVID. This school year has felt draining and sad, with all of the cancellations and postponed events. I just cant wait for the future ahead of me, and I hope no high school student ever has to deal with what all of these students went through. How did we all grow up so quickly, it felt like yesterday when we used to watch those plays and wait on this very moment.
High School has definitely taken a different route for me. I also found myself able to be more social all of freshman year and up until Covid sophomore year. There was always a party to go to or a place to be explored. Now Junior year feels like a shadow of the entertaining times I had in the first 1.5 years of high school (I took out .5 due to Covid.) I definitely think I have become more serious and extremely focused on getting the best possible grades and accomplishing as much as I can in my sports. Covid has really dampened my spirits and I feel as if I no longer am as fun and outgoing. It's crazy how this event could have changed me in the way it did. I agree with you when you say you hope no other high school students will have to put up with what we did. It's sad to think all of my dream High School Musical moments are passing me by.
ReplyDeleteIt is crazy to me that in less than 4 months, we will be seniors. I remember being in Kindergarten and them telling us the year 2022 and thinking "wow that is so far away." But now that year is almost here. I miss the way high school used to be like our first two years. I hope it will go back to normal for our last year and we will get a prom and a graduation.
ReplyDeleteIt is so crazy to think that we are going to be seniors next year. It feels like yesterday I walked into the high school as a freshman for the first time. I often think about where all the time went. When I was younger I would watch tv shows and movies that made high school seem like the most amazing time in our lives. COVID definitely changed that because our high school experience isn't so amazing and glamorous. I really hope that we have somewhat of a normal senior year, so we are able to partially experience that "typical" high school life.
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