High School is Not a Musical

Often times many high school students will say, “high school was nothing like the movies”. Which in some sense I’ll agree is true, it is nothing like the musical. Although, who walks around the school singing all day? I think we all knew that we would never see the basketball team break out into song and dance in the middle of practice. We all hoped high school would be all smiles and fun like it was in High School Musical. We were in for a rude awakening.

High school is a lot of things, but I think we can all agree that it’s not always a happy place and it’s a lot harder than we all thought; I think we underestimated it. High school isn’t close to being anything like the movie High School Musical. There is lots of clicks and drama unlike the movie.  I think it’s safe to say we have all noticed the clicks we formed over the years and the endless drama that really never seems to stop coming. High school is a lot of things, to a lot of different people. Some enjoyed these last four years and will cherish them, while others will never look back because their memories were not so great.

I personally thought high school would be the best four years of my life, it was the beginning of gaining freedom and preparing to be on your own. In the time we have been in high school many of us got our licenses, got jobs, and turned 18, all things that were exciting and new. In high school we learned more about ourselves than we had ever known. I was expecting everything to go great and to look back and remember my time in high school as great days.

However, high school was not all it was cracked up to be. No one told you about all the tests and the importance of doing good in order to have a better future. It was never elaborated on that what you did freshman year would still follow and haunt you your senior year. It wasn’t totally bad, there were good times like we had expected. School dances, sports events, spirit weeks, and many other events.

High school isn’t like the movies, because somehow no matter what in the movies the characters always still seem to make it a happy place, even though bad things are in the mix of the storyline. During our time here we have seen many happy times like homecoming and winter carnivals. We have also seen not so great times. Through it all our class stuck together, like the cliche classes in the movies.

Graduation time has finally come and we are all on to the next adventure, something you never see in the movies. Most all of us made it here, we have all had our bumps in the road, but we are here. High School Musical didn’t tell the younger versions of us that high school wouldn’t be happy all the time and always singing catchy songs. It taught us so much more, lessons that will last for years to come. In the end high school really was nothing like the musical.

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