I keep a journal religiously. I was idly flipping through pages and found my entry from November 28, this past Monday. I was rambling about my experiences during freshman year and finally decided to summarize in the last paragraph of that day's entry. I think it's quite realistic, and definitely a variation of an idea that has gone through every teenager's mind.
"If I could sum up what I learned about life during freshman year, it would be that nobody is perfect and no situation will ever be precisely to your liking. High school has a way of destroying one's faith in the world and hope for the future. It just blows. We wake up at 5AM after not being able to sleep the previous night due to stress and angst. We get on a bus with obnoxious assholes to go to a dejected school and see more obnoxious assholes. We have pointless information shoved down our throats for six hours, only to go home and do more work on bullshit about which we don't care. It's such an idiotic system, when you boil down to it. So why is it unchanging?" 11/28/11
Thoughts, anyone?
"High school has a way of destroying one's faith in the world and hope for the future." Absolutely. A good friend of mine always said to me "cheer up! It could be worse: you could be on fire." Attending a Catholic School has really made me realize that all this time, there are people that have been attending prisons (Catholic Schools) while I was off enjoying public school. So just remember, things could always be worse; you could be at Catholic School.
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