Here's a scenario that most of you have probably been through but just re-live it for a minute.
It's fall of your senior year in high school. You've had fun, lots of friends and have done fairly well. Now you're excited for this year because you're on top now but at the same time you're tired of high school and just want to be done with it. So you begin to go through the year. There are fun things: Halloween, homecoming, football games, Christmas, New Year's and so on. There are also not so fun things: homework, tests, papers, exams, you know. Now it all starts to go by so quickly.....then you reach March and that means only one thing: Spring Break! You have an awesome time. Then you come back to school and begin to realize how little time you have left in school. You start to see that you might never see some of these people again. Now you're torn: you want school to end because you think if you have to take one more essay test you've spent all your time studying for and still just get a C you'll have a mental breakdown but you also want to stay in school...not for actual school of course....just to be with your friends that much longer. Then you have your final exams...uh-oh...now its getting close. Next, school actually ends....you have had your last day of high school. You're so excited school is over that you don't pay too much attention to the fact that you'll be seeing your friends much less now. Sure you'll see them the next month at senior luncheons, ceremonies and graduation practices but it won't quite be the same again. Then, finally it's here! Graduation! But, oh no! You are SO excited! You're done! But this is it.....you'll still see your very best friends but what about all those friends you just enjoy talking to or hanging out with once in a while? Probably won't see them again.
This is where it begins to hit you....you are going to be around a completely new set of people next year. For some this is a great thing, for others there's nothing worse than having to meet all new people.
Anyway, now it's summer and you're so excited! You've got trips planned and you're going to hang out with your closest friends at all times. Oh and you're working....not so fun but you're making that money. So summer begins. You work, you play, you work, you play.....you're having a great time and then...woah! A whole month has passed and you didn't even notice! Now it's close enough to think of it in weeks....yikes! Six weeks until you move in to college! Now it really hits you....all of your closest friends will be at least 4 hours away.
Now you think about how it will be seeing them from now on. What will they be like? Will they change? Will they hang around different people? Will they be a saint? Will they become a druggie? Anything could happen and they might never be the same as they are now.
Since I'm not to college yet I can't quite finish this scenario completely so if you've already been through this transition from high school to college finish it with your experience. My hope is that everyone who reads this will take my words and turn them into their own experience and re-live this time in their lives. Now if you do this you're not allowed to think shoulda, coulda, woulda. I believe in having no regrets, so whether you were the captain of the football team or a cheerleader or a dork, geek, nerd or all of the above; have no regrets.
The only thing I have left to say is: I hope you had the time of your life.
