cliche post

if high school has taught me some things these are them:
as a freshman:
I walked into this school scared but excited. I was hoping and praying that I didn't look too stupid and had to know where all my classes were so I wouldn't get lost. I would die of excitement everytime an upperclassmen acknowledged me because that was somehow empowering and made me feel cooler. I went from class to class on the daily just trying to have fun, not ever realizing that my freshman grades would make a huge impact on my GPA and having to cope with it later in high school I wish I would have tried a lot harder. I met a lot of cool people as a freshman everyone was a new and got a fresh start. I probably can't tell you who dated or who had the coolest homecoming dress because what no one tells you is that none of those things are ever as important as they seemed. We all had some fun, but freshman year was just a year we all tried to get through.
as a sophomore:
We all walked into school happy as can be that we weren't the lowly freshman anymore we were all a step ahead and we knew the school, maybe had some older friends. That one friend got their liscense early and we felt so young and free to do what we wanted. We were all crazy and rebelled because our parents were so "lame" and such "assholes" who never understood what it was like to be in highschool. Well we were wrong but we didn't know it. We pushed way our families and spent every second with our friends in parking lots doing rediculous shit that we will never repeat. We complained about how much we hated school and lived for the weekends, so we could go out and have something to talk about on Monday, not to forget that one girl who got drunk and had sex with a senior. I'm pretty sure that was the tlak of the year. Parties were new and exciting and no one had gotten completely crazy yet.
as a junior:
We all came in, finally upperclassmen and excited for all the rules that were dropped, we could go out to lunch, have release, and everyone had a little more trust with us. We were all so cool because we were close with teachers and had inside jokes with them. We finally could actually see at football games and cheered our hearts out for the boys we knew and loved, we had the time of our lives just doing what we wanted. The weekends were another story we spent hours on end with our best friends doing everything a highschooler shouldn't do. We would live to get ready together and go out at night. Talking about the stupid things everyone did and said. We neglected our parents and didn't notice their disproval because we did what we wanted. We thought nothing could get better. We layed in bed with our best friends and cried over boys, talked about how stupid they were, and creeped on the girl he cheated with making up every possible reason to hate her. We lived and we learned a little, but we were always trying to be older and out of high school.
Can't say I have been a senior but I'm afraid it will come a lot sooner than I am ready. I know if it''s anything like the last three years it will only fly by even faster. We will go to our last highschool football game, our last first day of school, our last homecoming, our last lunch, our last prom, our last everything. We probably won't realize what is happening at any of those things because we will be having too much fun and not worrying. What we are missing is these last great moments, how much we took for granted trying to grow up. As we sit in graduation it will hit most of us how many people we will never see again: that girl you sat behind in freshman biology that always said the weirdest shit, the guy with the rattail, and all those peopel you were pretty good friends with, but not close enough to make an effort to see again. You will t hink about the kids going out of state and hope to see them on breaks, but the truth of the matter is you probably won't and what has passed by were some of the best years of your life, so don't try and grow up to fast. Enjoy being young and free, it's a lot better than you think it is. It's not to be said that the best is yet to come, because it is. Live in the moment, do something stupid, live, love, learn, forgive, forget, but whatever you do don't grow up too fast.