When we hear high school, people have mixed reactions. There are people that like it while others don't. Then there are people in the middle. When we get out of high school, we either; miss it, don't, or it comes in waves.
Now that I'm on my way to finishing my degree, I can honestly say that I don't really miss high school, and I don't want to go back. I didn't have a bad time during high school. Most of it was good. It has nothing to do with my experience. The memories that I made during high school that will always make me smile. All those bus rides to games (including the really long ones that didn't seem to end), the feeling that I would get before a game or an event in track, the feeling of cutting down the basketball nets after winning conference, playing in the pep band, cheering on our school's teams, eating lunch with my friends, graduation, all the clubs that I was a part of, and all the fun events that I got to attend. Those things I will always miss about high school. But there are things about high school that I don't miss either.
Once I graduated from high school, I closed that chapter of my life and began a new one. I don't need to relive my high school days. I moved on. I'm starting to make new memories, and not be stuck in old ones. In college, I'm learning who I want to be and becoming the person I want to be. I'm not where I want to be, but I'm a lot closer to the person that I want to be now than back when I was in high school. In high school, I was myself for the most part, but I never was fully myself because I was afraid of what people would think of me.
College was where no one knew who I was, and I could start over. I could fully be myself, and learn to love myself for who I want to be. Of course, it's taking some time, but that's okay. I'm going to keep moving forward.
But no matter where I am in my life, I will always be a Pirate at heart, and no one can take that away. To all the people in high school, enjoy it because those four years are going to just cruise by even if you think graduation is a long time away from now. It's going to faster than you think. Because when it's over, it's over. I will always hold onto the memories that I made in high school, but for me, that chapter is over, and I would never go back to high school if I had the choice.