What is a senior? Some would say, a person heading to college, one with more experience, someone with higher rank, someone much older (also known as a senior citizen).
Our senior year has been full of fun, stress, and even some senioritis. We’ve grown together as the class of 2011, grown as individuals and as a graduating class. In four years we have grown up as young adults entering this new life ahead of us. In four years we have become close, leaned on one another, cried together, had happy times together, and even some of us grew apart. As our graduating date becomes closer and more real, I start feeling more anxious to see what life has in store for me and other fellow classmates. Where am I going in life? What’s my purpose in this world? What will be the difference I make? All of these big decisions lie before all the graduating seniors as big life changes, whether it’s going into the military, what college to attend, where to find a job, or what other decisions to be made. Entering adulthood has become a reality most of us look forward to all of our life. However, this new life will be filled with new jobs, new classes, new friends, and a new lifestyle. These big changes will change us; they will make us stronger, better people.
High school has taught me to be an individual in this world, not just another person, just you. As an individual, it is up to you to be the change, to make a difference in your own life. High school is a beginning, not an end. It’s the beginning of a new journey, one that will lead you places you have never been, teach you life’s lessons, and mold you into a new individual, full of new life. Goodbyes are hard, but must be said, a new school is also hard, but must be attended, and new teachers will be hard, but have to be liked, or tolerated in most cases. New people will be scary to meet, but may end up becoming your new best friends soon after. College will become a new life for most of us and a new challenge to overcome.
We will all be freshmen again, imagine that. Become the “new kids” in school, just like when we were entering the ninth grade. Now we’re leaving on top of the world, the Seniors of Eaton Rapids High School, everything in front of us. Our whole life and future is now up to us, not our teachers, not our parents, not even our friends, just us. We have to become these scary adults we never wanted to be and step up to the plate. Now it’s our turn to show off our wonderful selves and become everything we’d hope to be. Now, your mom might drive you to school to drop you off, maybe even pack a lunch for your first day, but now it’s on you. You are the future, you will make a difference.
