On a warm, August day back in 2014, my freshman self was on her second day of high school. My English teacher passed out blank sheets of paper and had us write letters to ourselves for when we were about to graduate high school.
A few days ago, those letters were passed back out and we all got to see how we thought high school would look today.
We all shared some laughs and passed around the ideas that we had that ended up being nowhere close to what high school actually was like.
My letter was like everyone else’s. I wrote all about the sports team I wanted to make, the friends that I thought would be by my side all four years, and the guy I thought would be my high school sweetheart.
All of it...was wrong. It was so far from the truth that it was hilarious.
While everything wasn’t correct, my freshman self-taught me the greatest lesson of all.
Nothing goes according to plan. Where you think you’ll end up going or doing in the next four years is never certain.
Life takes you in new directions each and every single day. You could be headed in one direction one day but a completely different direction the next.
That’s what makes each experience so special.
Who knows where the next four years will take me.
High school turned out nothing like I thought it would, so who knows how college will turn out either? While I may have an idea about where I’ll go in college, you never know how things will end up.
But I guess that’s just part of the adventure.
