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Graduation.. or “Moving-Up”..

I think I’ve been getting quite off topic lately, but I think a blog should be there to write about things that I have on my mind. So I’m thinking a lot about graduation, or “moving-up” as they call it here (if we say graduation, some people go into a mini schizophrenia) and I was thinking about what it really means. When you first think of that term, you think high-school, harder classes, stricter teachers… but you also think of all the great parties to come and all the fun you’re going to have now since you are older. Graduation or “moving-up” is just another way of saying that we’re getting older. But sometimes we don’t exactly look into what that means. My parents tell me this all the time, and although I deny it, I know it’s the truth. Teenagers think they know everything; they think that they understand responsibility and how things work in life, but they, or should I say we, don’t. If adolescents are always partying and getting drunk or high or whatever, they don’t exactly understand responsibility, or, do they? Well, that’s what we think, “Because we are responsible, we can do whatever we want.” That really doesn’t make any sense, but that’s what the average teenage mind unconsciously, or who knows, maybe knowingly thinks. So is graduation just there to fill our minds with more of these “I’m a grown man/woman” ideas? Life is about change, but if graduating is a learning experience, is it the right one? I guess that’s what I’m going to have to find out in a couple of months. Even with these thoughts in my head, though, I’m still super excited for high-school. The thought that I’m getting closer and closer to independence is just thrilling, in an exciting, yet terrifying way. Sure, it is four years away, but isn’t that what we said about high-school when we were little fifth graders? And look at where we are now; stepping into a new environment, with new people and new experiences. So I guess graduating is, well, nothing more than symbol of a transition to a new period of our lives. Just how we transition after moving to a new country, school, house, through friendships, relationships… Things like these are just new chapters in our lives that can sometimes change the story around to have a happy, or maybe not so happy ending. But as life goes on, we always go through change, big or small. Perhaps I’m completely over-looking the situation; I mean all graduation really means is a ceremony where you receive a piece of paper telling you that you achieved something. Seriously! And who knows, maybe high-school won’t be any different than middle-school and the purpose of this blog is… meaningless. Yet, I still get butterflies in my stomach when I look over at the high-school building and think that’s where I’ll be in a few months. And when I get that feeling, it means that something is up. So I know that “moving-up” will be a great experience; wearing pretty dresses and looking really nice for your family members and what-not is always fun, and enjoying your last moments as a middle-school student with your friends is great. But in a way, it’s also a goodbye party, I guess, for those who are starting a new chapter in their lives. It’s always sad to say goodbye to your friends, especially those who are so close to you. I’m going to have to go through with this, as do many other of my friends. It’s funny how I’m anxious for the school-year to end, but at the same time, I don’t want it to ever end. This way I won’t have to go through the pain of saying ‘bye to those who are my best friends. The funny thing of all this is, it hasn’t hit me that I won’t really see these people anymore. Since the day that I found out, I kept telling myself that I still had time. But time is quite short now, seeing as we have about three weeks of school left. Now that I’m out of time, I don’t exactly know what’s going to happen next. Some people have the whole summer, or at least half of it to say their “farewells” and all, but not me. I won’t be here for most of the summer. And then I’ll be in high-school counting down the years ’till college. It’s amazing how fast time seems to fly. The truth is it hasn’t even sunk into my head that I’m an eighth grader. In seventh grade, I would always say, “We’ll be at the top of the middle-school next year.” Then this year came and it just never got to my brain that we “ruled the school.” Now we’re going into high-school and we’ll be the little, inexperienced kids again. And I haven’t even gotten used to the fact of being in this position! It’s just all too crazy. In a way, that’s how life works; you start off being the small, weak one, and then you make your way to the top. This graduation topic is a perfect example. When the day of our graduation comes, I’ll admit, I won’t be thinking at all about this. All I think I’ll be thinking of is how excited I’ll be for summer and how awesome high-school will be. I will most likely be thinking about how my hair looks, what my makeup does to my face in the lighting, if I have a piece of apple stuck in my teeth from the morning… blah blah blah. Because, really. Who on earth would want to worry about all the future problems on such a special day like this? Certainly not me. But after, I will definitely have something to think about in the summer while I visit my grandparents. So now, as my eyes are getting quite tired, and my mind is thinking about something else to write about (which apparently I can’t), I bid you adieu. Or, however you say it. And to all my fellow classmates, only four weeks left! Enjoy the last of our science “assessments” and algebra quiz’s.

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