Commencement Address- Regrets of a High School Senior

As a senior in high school I have many regrets throughout my highschool career. My freshman year I had moved to EL and I have really bad anxiety so I was scared of upsetting people and not having friends. I made some friends at my school but in most of my classes I sat and worked by myself. I felt like a lone wolf separated from the pack. The lunch room was in the basement of the school it was kind of a dark room not many decorations either which made it even darker and more depressing. I went to this school from my freshman year until around the first quarter of my junior year. Eventually, around my junior year before I left I had gained a lot of friends but I still felt like I didn’t have any. I couldn’t help feeling like even though I had friends like Conor, Jaxson, Mohammed, Flavio that they weren’t real friends and since I didn’t have many classes with them so I still felt alone.

My junior year I had moved schools to Oak Hill and since I had already gone there I already had friends there. Moving to Oak Hill helped me out of my shell a lot. I only went for half of my junior year and my senior year but I still enjoyed my time there. Alex and Adam I was already close with through most of high school but I also got closer with some other people I didn’t know or wasn’t close with before.  Some of the major takeaways and lessons I learned from this experience was to not always worry so much about what other people think and to be yourself because eventually you’ll find people who like you for who you are even if there aren’t that many of them it’s better then acting like someone else. 

These lessons will help me make more friends in the future. They’ll help me step out of my comfort zone and talk to new people and make new friends. These situations change the way I think about myself and other people. They helped me reach out to people and not just sit back and wait for people to talk to me. If i had to go through this same situation again I would put myself out there more and go out of my way to make friends. Thank you from the wolf pack.

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