What Did They Do? They Lied

Fellow Scholars,

As you are probably well aware of at this point, it is our last day of high school. This means the end of the agonizing hours spent studying for tests, the countless hours spent on ungraded homework, and most of all, the end of spending 6 hours a day at a building do work that we may or may not care about.

Looking back on the time that we have spent in high school, I remember one of the mortifying thing that they told us when we first started high school. “Most, if not all of your friends will change”. As the years passed however, I have found that this has been nothing more than a lie, as when I look back at freshmen year, I find that all my friends then are the same friends I have now. Maybe they have changed as people, but overall, my friends are the same people. If anything, all that has happened is that I have made new friends, but not really lost any.

Continuing to look back at the 4 years spent in high school,  I think back to another thing they told us on our first day. I remember looking to the seniors our freshmen year and being told how high school would go by in the blink of an eye, and how short it would seem at the end. I personally find that this was one of the biggest lies I was told my freshmen year. Between the stress filled nights before AP tests, the countless days spent counting the minutes down until 2 o’clock, and the uncountable hours spent on homework, I find that high school seems to feel as though it has lasted longer than it really has. Quite frankly, high school has been one of the longest lasting experiences of my life. I must say that I am slightly happy that it was a long lasting experience however, as it was filled with some of the memories that will last a lifetime.

And so, to you, my fellow scholars, I leave you with a message, do not simply live for the normal, for the things that go with the flow. Barely any stories are made on “ just another night”, but rather are made on the nights about “this one time I” and other beginnings of similar merit. So, to you I say that if given the option to stay in for the night and remain bored, or to go out and do something that could possibly be exciting, or that could possibly end with a huge mess, go out and have a new experience, for those will be the things that you remember, it will be those nights that stick out about all others.

And now, before I conclude my speech, I would like you to all do me a favor. Please take a look under your seats. What do you see? The correct answer should be nothing, as this is not Oprah, and I do not put things under chairs to just to give away. That is just silly.