Do you ever wonder what your life will be like after high school? Who will you be friends with? How will college treat you? Will you be working? Will you find the love of your life or stay with your current boyfriend/girlfriend? Will you be successful?

Like many, these are very few of the million questions that run through your mind. I am the same way when it comes to thinking about my future. 

When ever your mind starts racing about the future you feel your heart start beating and it’s as if the world fast fowards or all crumbles away. You begin to plan things to do and stress yourself out over the little things. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg... everyone always has something different lying underneath. Whether it’s a mental illness, disability, being bullied, not feeling good enough, or even a situation at home; that makes you feel this type of way. 

Dear High School Seniors, 

Your life after graduation will be something you could never imagine. It will no longer be clicks and popular kids, SNE kids and everyone else, cramming for tests, doing homework, partying on the weekends, going to your two day job, spending every afternoon at rehearsal or practice. 

Many of you wish to be out of school already. To be in college, married with kids, in a full blown career, or living the bachelor life; but why wish soon found experiences away. 

As you start your last semester of high school, my advice is to live in the moment. This is the last time you will see everyone you’ve grown up with. Enjoy all the “lasts” and make every moment a great one. Soon, your life will be changed forever. 

All of you are desperately wishing graduation would come faster, but trust me, you don’t want to waste this last semester. Go live your last moments of adolescence with the people you love and have known forever. 

Do not peak. Just live your life to the fullest and dont graduate with any regret.

You will no longer have the cafeteria fights, lunch table arguments, volleyball tournaments, BOTC, drama club shows, or salvage your phone battery for eight hours of a day. 

ALSO YOU SHOULD KNOW... 

"Your high school friends are going to make new friends, and so will you. No, this doesn’t mean that the friends you’ve had forever won’t matter anymore once you all go off to college. But it does mean that things will be different. You’re all going to have friends that the others only hear about from stories or tagged Instagram photos. Know that this is okay and don’t feel bad if you don’t talk to your high school bestie every single day. The realest of friendships are the ones you don’t have to maintain daily, but can always pick up right where you left off the next time you get together again.

Be friendly to everyone. You’re going to meet people everywhere: in the dorms, during class, from your sorority, and through drunken bathroom encounters at a bar. It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard about them, how they look on Facebook, or whose friend’s brother’s ex-girlfriend they are. You never know when you are introducing yourself to your next best friend. It’s more important to be known as the person who is nice to everyone than it is to be the person who’s quick to draw a circle around her group of friends. Form a crew, but don’t be cliquey. Hang out with people who help you have fun, but also who help make you a better person.

Your high school friends are going to make new friends, and so will you. No, this doesn’t mean that the friends you’ve had forever won’t matter anymore once you all go off to college. But it does mean that things will be different. You’re all going to have friends that the others only hear about from stories or tagged Instagram photos. Know that this is okay and don’t feel bad if you don’t talk to your high school bestie every single day. The realest of friendships are the ones you don’t have to maintain daily, but can always pick up right where you left off the next time you get together again.

Be friendly to everyone. You’re going to meet people everywhere: in the dorms, during class, from your sorority, and through drunken bathroom encounters at a bar. It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard about them, how they look on Facebook, or whose friend’s brother’s ex-girlfriend they are. You never know when you are introducing yourself to your next best friend. It’s more important to be known as the person who is nice to everyone than it is to be the person who’s quick to draw a circle around her group of friends. Form a crew, but don’t be cliquey. Hang out with people who help you have fun, but also who help make you a better person" (https://thoughtcatalog.com/bari-cutler/2014/05/dear-high-school-seniors-this-is-your-last-summer-before-college-heres-what-you-should-know/).

Stop wishing away your CHILDHOOD...

Sincerely,

The Girl Doing The Same Exact Thing.