When I was a sophomore, I always wanted to know how it felt to graduate and take another step in life. I thought about how it would feel like if i was happy and proud of myself. I thought I would feel great about going on a new adventure outside tiny Randolph, Massachusetts. I thought of my life changing from one thing to another. I was so ready to move on with my life that I did not even realize that things were going to be different; It is going to be a new start, something that will affect my life so greatly.
By my junior year, everything started to get harder because I was supposed to be preparing for college. People told me that junior year in high school is the best year of all four years. They forget that junior year is the last step to senior year and there are life-affecting consequences if they do not take it seriously. By the end of my junior year, I was already thinking about my college choices and why I chose them. Some of them I chose because they were the first ones that I could think of, some were because they were family traditions or public ones. But the one thing that I did not realize is that it does not matter if three of my cousins went there; all that mattered is that I could fit in and be successful anywhere like everybody else. It does not matter if my friends think that I am making a big mistake or I am just trying to get away from my family. Choosing the right college to go to should mean a lot more than just making your family happy or your friends, it is about you being able to see yourself walking across the stage four or five years from now proud of who you have become.
By the time I got to my senior year, I was ready to work hard and move forward; but I did not know how hard it was going to be. Senior year is the hardest and best year in high school.
It is hard for students that joked around throughout their high school career and did not take it seriously. It is also hard for the ones that have being working hard since day one because they want to make a difference. Students are under enormous pressure to catch up after a school career of slacking and fatigued after a career of grinding.
It is the best because it is the last and everyone is trying to have as much fun as they can. Senior year for me was both hard and the best because I tried to maintain both my grades and my athleticism. By the end of my senior year, I was proud of myself because I made a difference in my life, my family's and my friend's. As I was ready to go to college, I was afraid that I will not be able to make it and back down and give up on my dreams. However, I did not realize that I worked really hard to reach where I am today and I do not want to give up because I sensed obstacles. One thing that I will never forget from English class is that obstacles or difficulties are there only to make you stronger and give you the will to fight and succeed.
Life is all about changes and things that you will not even remember facing because of how hard you worked and how strong you have become. Obstacles will always be there in your way but you will have the will to fight and get through every temporary thing that are in life which one day you will not even remember you had them.
