High School Compared to The Movies

Hello my name is Colby Whitaker I am a senior at Oak Hill High School and am barely passing but I am doing my best. I think we are all just doing our best to get by for the most part. High school is always such a mystery and strange thing to maneuver. In movies they always have them different either a scary place where you will get beat up or meet someone interesting. The real reality of high school is that it is a place that you will hate while you were here but eventually look back on as a good thing. High school is like going to see a bad movie in a movie theater. You are excited to start the movie with a new experience, that movie being high school. The drive there is very relaxing listening to music getting you ready to go see what you think could possibly be the movie of the year. You get set on your first time walking in seeing all the large led lights twinkling around the logo of the theater, The red carpets leading you to the smell of popcorn, and those large weird cardboard cutouts that some people take pictures with. All of the lights stimulate the brain making it seem very exciting. It makes you get excited to see how the movie makes you feel what could happen after hearing peoples opinions on it and seeing trailers for the movie. You get in and you sit down and get ready for the next 2 hours you are going to be sitting there. High school is the kind of movie that you struggle to stay awake during. High school is like when you eat all the popcorn before the movie even starts, you are already done with your food and drink and you just want to get up to go get more. You sit in your chair twiddling your thumbs waiting to get through what feels like the most boring and longest experience of your life. You sit through the same lines of dialogue that has been in every movie that has the most plain story of all time. 

High school is one of the most basic and annoying things that anyone has to endure and we all endure it together. But it also takes a different perspective and I think we all will get that after we leave. At the end of the movie you see all those names fly past you, maybe you remember some of them, maybe you don’t. You start to head out of the movie and most of the time after the chugging of your large fountain drink you book it to the bathroom. Then it’s to the car, the time you get to reflect on everything you just went through and talk to your peers. You hear their perspectives and their ideas. Even if it isn’t right away that we begin to enjoy the movie eventually you start to look back when talking about the film you just saw again with friends and think to yourself you missed it, you had fun with it, you were with friends and it was the experience you got from it not necessarily the movie itself that was what you miss but the people and the time you spent there. Then when there is a sequel you go back and go through it all over again as a round two till you see all 4 of those movies to the point you are burnt out but you are finally done with them. That’s when some of us will decide to just watch a movie from home on another day or go to the theater to start a new series.

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