This is college platform but let’s take a ride down memory lane, shall we. Or at least, try. Let’s be frank, high school is hard. It’s not the academic part, but it’s the journey that comes with it. From running to your locker before first period to the toss of our graduation caps, high school is four years of endless chaos.

After work, I started to think about high school. The do’s and don’t. What I should’ve done or should’ve walked away from. Maybe it’s because I finished 13 Reasons Why yesterday, but it got me thinking. I’m definitely not saying I hated high school, but if I could get rid of a few mistakes, I would. But then again, if those mistakes never happened, I’d be a completely different person.

“In a blink of an eye, it’s all over.”

I absolutely 100% did not believe that. But as the years go by, it does. It’s 2017 and I graduated almost 2 years ago. And it doesn’t feel like it. They say high school is only 4 years. But it's much more than that. I was cleaning my room before work and I came across my champagne prom dress. I stared at the dress and remembered prom day like it was yesterday. I stressed over the little tiny things like my hair, my makeup, my shoes, and etc. (Let’s be honest, it was big deal.) But I stared at the dress and reminisced. Scared shitless to try it on because I had no time to waste for a mental breakdown about my weight.

But continued to remember the little memories of high school.

I can honestly sit here and say I graduated with a good class. We genuinely liked each other. Minus the hardships but we did to a certain degree like each other. A good majority of us cared for each other, which is probably why high school wasn’t that bad. My high school experience is not the High School Musical experience but it was good.

Building friendships, experiencing your first party, getting heartbroken, experiencing a loss of a loved one, and more - happened in high school, at least for me. And remembering how those harsh moments felt like forever. Once you get older, you laugh at those moments and tell yourself it’s not forever. The things I stressed over then is the things I laugh with my girlfriends over a few drinks - like lemonade and juice…

We’re only young once and if we could rewind the past, we would never grow. High school is bliss but college is where everything starts to form. We should be more carefree and nostalgic as we were in high school. Life is too short to not live to the absolute fullest.