Hello, my name is Morgan and I am approaching the end.
On June 5, I will officially graduate from high school. It's hard to believe. Throughout all the years, you start the school year in 7th grade, 8th grade, maybe 9th, and you think, this is just another year and next year I'll start again, but one grade higher. But the numbers keep getting higher, and soon enough you find yourself in 12th grade. This year I started school and I thought, "Wow. I've always known where I was going to be in a year or even in two or three years but this year . . . I have no idea." It was the scariest thing to look ahead and have only the vaguest idea of where I would be in one year.
There are so many different colleges, so many different options out there and it was like being lost and not having a map. I had to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, and let me tell you, being a senior in high school is so exciting and so much fun, but then there's the part of it that is so scary and so unpredictable. Things get stressful and life is no longer handed to you. This time, it's up to you to figure things out.
I visited so many colleges, and I had no idea where I was going to end up. There were pluses and minuses to each school, I didn't know how to choose. Luckily, I fell in love with the last college I visited, and that is where I will be attending in the fall. And now, it sounds simple to say I will be attending this university and I will be majoring in Middle Grades Education with concentration in math and social studies, but it was not easy getting here. There were so many steps along the way and so much to decide. I just kept thinking, "This is my future. My future." And to be completely honest, that scared me. It scared me that I, for once, had to make these big decisions in my life, because there's always that doubt in the back of your mind telling you this better be what you want or your whole life could end up differently than you want it.
Getting here was hard. It was stressful and sleepless, full of pressure from everyone around me, and occasionally I wanted to throw myself out of a window on a very high floor. Everything was being thrown at me all at once. I'm not going to lie to you. Senior year: yes it's parties and friends and having privileges you didn't have before, but it's also making huge life decisions, doing gigantic amounts of work in a little bit of time, and overall trying to keep your head on straight. (I won't even go into how expensive being a senior is.)
This last semester has flown by. And in this next month I'll be attending my senior prom, going to Kalahari for after prom, and going to Cedar Point at least once. These will be my last great memories with my high school friends. Then, I will graduate.
It's just now hitting me that the people I see every day aren't going to be around forever. There are probably a lot of people that I'm actually never going to see again. That sounds pretty sad, I know. But there also comes a point when it's time to move on. And this is our time. We're all going away and we're all going to begin our lives now and start working toward what we want. I will still get to see the people that matter on breaks and vacations, and I know that I'm going to make so many new friends when I start college.
It's time for me to move on, and I'm more ready than I'll ever be. Graduation is coming my way faster than a speeding bullet and it's exciting to know that great things are coming in my future.
I wish you all the best in your last years of high school. Don't forget to enjoy it while it lasts, but don't be afraid of the future. The future is going to be your life one day, and I promise that you're going to love it. Do what's in your heart, because in the end, what makes you happy will be the most important thing.
