I loved High School. I had unbelievably great friends. I had some phenomenal teachers. I lived at home. Life was so good.
I wish I had seen that more when I was there. It seemed like every little bump was horrible and my relationship problems seemed to take center stage, but even they don’t dull how much I loved it.
I loved it because I was so close to so many people I loved in the world. And now I’m pretty far. Things were so spontaneous, so relaxing, so fun. I could just chill or hang out with my friends after school. We could walk around, thinking we were so cool, totally absorbed in our own world.
There was drama, heartbreak, fights, but we made it through them. I loved it and I miss it. Risks didn’t mean that much, the future seemed far away, and everyday mattered. Everyday was the most important thing, fight, breakup, or no. I loved, and still love, just hanging out with those friends, sitting on the couch, walking around the park, anything and everything was better with my friends around me. I miss having those people, who were so close to me, who I still care about deeply around me.
College was great too, I met some wonderful friends and what not which made it fantastic. But high school was something special. And they are friends which I have kept even now. High school taught me how to have friendships, what I wanted, what I didn’t, and I used that information in college to make some great friends.
My high school friends were with my from the beginning, and I am proud to say that many are still with me now.
If I could go back and give any advice to my high school self?
- You can’t change anyone if they don’t want to change, and if they don’t want to, you can never make them
- Don’t fret the relationship problems that much (knowing now that the relationship wouldn’t last, and, let’s be real, I must have thought that life could have gotten better than that)
- Don’t forget that feeling of taking everyday as the next
I don’t really miss high school at all, just my friends, seeing them everyday and hanging out with them all the time.