Graduation: the day most seventeen/ eighteen year olds look forward to the most. As you walk across the stage to grab your diploma, smile at your parents, and do a little congratulations dance to your self. Reality starts to hit, you look back to all the things you did through your high school years, the people you have meet, the teachers you have bonded with, the classes you took, the lunches you seem to remember every little thing that has gone on through out your high school days. For some, high school was the best times of their lives... other not so much. In the final days of your high school career, try to keep viewing the times: the last time you will ever sit at the same lunch table with your best friend, the last time you will walk into your algebra two math class or that last game that you will face with your teammates no the field. You also think back to your first day of high school, some of us were afraid, like me, where others where just ready to leave their middle school. Either way, we all walked into the doors of the place where we would spend four years making friends, joining clubs and sports teams, and making memories that we will look back on, like relationships with boyfriends or girlfriends, or the stupid jokes that you and your best friend would share between classes.

Yes there is a lot to enjoy about being a high school student and having the time of your life, but like all great things it has to come to end at some point. You must start a new chapter somewhere along the way. That new chapter starts the day you walk across that stage and grab that diploma that you have been working so hard to get for the last four years. Remember, just because this chapter is ending in your life does not mean that life is ending, You are about to start a new chapter that is exciting and just for you, whether it is going to college or joining the work force, either way the path you choose for this next chapter is up to you and nobody else. Follow where you want to go and remember there is also something good in the next chapter, you just have to brave enough to write it.