Senior Year for the Class of 2021

Sigh..., to think that our Senior Year is going to start online instead of what we have been thinking of for the past 3 years. Remember the day we first entered High School? Do you guys remember seeing the seniors then, maybe not for everyone but some (me) were kind of scared of them... I mean yeah, over time I got along with them, but I entered school after watching Disney shows of how the seniors were the big kids of the school. That was definitely terrifying. I remember seeing a tall dude, with tattoos all over his arms and another guy with a full beard (I vividly remember taking another set of stairs to my academy in order to avoid them cause they intimidated the hell out of me), and of course the gorgeous girls walking down the hallway with their group of friends.

I thought by Senior Year, we'll be able to know what we want in life and have our lives together for the last year of school. We were growing up. But, now that we're seniors ourselves, I kind of still feel like the tiny freshman me. Still extremely childish (only times I need to mature up I do), curious about life, still saying "when I grow up I want to...", always messing around with my friends like we're 5, doing impulsive things without thinking about the consequences, making all the wrong decisions and learning from all my mistakes. I'm sure that's all of you too. We're supposed to graduate to adulthood after high school, but we're all still kids.

Yes, I know everyone thinks they grew up because of life, and how we have to mature up faster than we wanted, but we're all still kids, we still have so much to experience in life. We're all still that freshmen when it comes to life, the only difference is instead of seniors we are now scared of our careers, college, rent, taxes, e.t.c. We all still need to experience going on a road trip with your friends, the first day of your dream job, first home, traveling to another country, maybe meeting the love of your life, getting married. You think you grew up, but maybe you just matured, you're still a child. It's completely ok to say "when I grow up I want to..." because let's be honest here, not one of us knows what the heck we're doing?

Senior Year starting online is going to be sad, seeing our friends on the screen instead of shaking hands and hugging them in school, no sports for the time being, having to concentrate at home with the world filled with distractions. Especially not ever being able to experience the last first day of school, no last homecoming, last Halloween in school, no more Christmas decorations in the hallways of school. Class of 2021 definitely is going to have it bad, but we're all still going to get through it (hopefully, I don't know depends on the genius people going out without masks), and maybe get the 2nd semester to have our last year in high school. If we do get the 2nd semester of our High School, just make the best of it and don't keep killing yourself over your mistakes, you're a kid and you still have so much to experience.

Keep Your Head Up And Enjoy Senior Year :)