Yesterday I attended my cousins high school graduation. I hadn't realized that it had already been two years since I graduated and three years since my family and I moved to South Carolina. I didn't expect so many memories to come flooding back all at once but they did; from my senior years and from previous years too.
It didn't bother me to move here, I was kinda excited at first. In fact the volleyball team I was on that year went undefeated and were regional champions. Then things started getting a little harder; my friends from Ohio stopped calling me and we drifted apart. I didn't think there was much of a point to make any friends at a high school I was only attending for one year when I was just going to graduate and move away. Then graduation came around, I was one person amoung 650 people I didn't know, I just wanted to get my diploma and get out (not unlike most other seniors). Certain feelings can arise when people go through a coming of age, especially when thing don't go the way things are planned. For me, watching my cousin graduate wasn't too hard, the hard part was seeing someone at her graduation that should have been at my graduation but wouldn't. The little girl inside me starting screaming and crying at the same time. I was so angry because I expected something so small from someone that meant so much to me, but unfortunately everyone's expectations are not met at one time or another.
However, high school in Ohio wasn't too bad. I only had 45 minute classes, but that eas barely any time to learn anything. At the time I did have friends (old friends), great friends that I made memories, mistakes, and learned lessons with. When I moved here, graduated and started college I met a lot more people (new friends) that get to test the foundation my old friends help establish and get to move forward and make a future with.
What's that song???......oh yeah.......
Make new friends, but keep the old
One is silver, and the other's gold.
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