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Amidst smelly gym socks, testosterone-crazed “dudes” playing football across the hall and body odor, there is something in Senior Hall that makes the high school experience bearable — the senior countdown.
The countdown is over and graduation has finally come for those of us who have put in our 540 days at FHS, and it couldn’t have come soon enough for a large proportion of the senior class. No more AP tests, running “lines” for basketball, labs for Advanced Biology … no more 6 a.m. mornings in the “pub.” Our lives as high school students are about to end.
But where will the rest of our lives begin once the time at FHS is done? That’s the scary thing about graduation. Sure, we’re all thrilled and excited that the end is in sight, but many aren’t sure what happens after the end.
Face it, high school really shouldn’t be the glory days — hopefully, there’s something with a little more splendor in the days ahead than all night cram sessions and AP tests. But what are we doing once we’re done with high school?
High school may be good, bad or ugly, but it’s definitely comfortable. We may not have to love it, but we have to admit that it’s a lot easier for many of us to be living with our parents and having them shoulder the bills.
Real life, my friends, isn’t all about having fun and partying — it’s work. About 50 years of it, as a matter of fact. It’s expensive, it’s stressful … it’s wonderful, too. But be ready for it — realize that, while we are getting out of something we don’t necessarily love, we’re also getting into somthing that we don’t understand.
I’m excited to move on with my life — we all are. We made it through 13 years of what are mythically called “the best years,” but what are really some of the hardest ones. We’re done, we’re moving on.
Are we ready? I don’t know.
Am I ready? I don’t know.
What I do know is that it’s time — time to move on to something that none of us really understand and something that none of us are ready for.
The senior motto, for once, is true: “It’s time to move on. It’s time to get going. What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing, but under my feet, the grass is growing. It’s time to move on, time to get going.”
It’s time.
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