Who out there is feeling funny about graduating from high school?
Who's sad about leaving behind friends, classmates, teammates, teachers, and a world that's been with you forever?
If saying goodbye to high school suddenly seems strange, you're not alone. Moving on is tough. It's especially so when you're replacing the old familiar terrain with a new and uncertain one. Change can be scary.
But it can also be exciting. And if you give college a chance, it will be one of the most interesting, inspiring, enlightening, and thought-provoking experiences of your life. It will also be personally fulfilling and--ready for this?--even fun, in different ways than high school ever was.
More freedom, more choices, more say in your education, more chances to be yourself (or to figure out who you are): College promises all of these things. It also promises more personal responsibility; get ready to start asking more questions and paying more attention to school than you've probably done previously. But that's adulthood for you--lots of heavy lifting in the maturity department.
So as you say your farewells in the days and weeks ahead, it's okay to feel a little nostalgic about high school. Its good times hopefully outnumbered the bad and its lessons--about education, people, and life--will hopefully stay with you. But make no mistake: high school is over, finished, done, part of your past. Time to look ahead to college, which will be here before you know it and which (if you let it) will enrich your life more than you can right now ever imagine.
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