It’s such a beautiful day!
Time to go out & enjoy the sunshine ♥
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(While working on apps, of course!)
Letter to Me: Studying Your Own Shadow
I thought I would create a huge long post about senior year and my feelings about it, but thought that this would do the job for me. I recently wrote this letter to myself and entered it in a contest, so we’ll see how that all pans out. :)
Here we go…
Dear Kaitlyn,
It hasn’t hit you yet, has it? The fact that you are a senior in high school and that this is your last year in these overcrowded hallways. That your path through this vibrant place you’ve come to call home in the last four years is slowly dwindling to a close. None of it has registered in your mind, for it seems like just yesterday, you were a freshman standing in the sun by the lunch pavilion, studying your own shadow as highly caffeinated high-schoolers drifted past you. It could be that the length of your shadow hasn’t changed in four years (you’ve haven’t grown an inch since the seventh grade, so no surprise there), so you’ve come to believe that you, as a whole, have not “grown into a senior.” But that’s taking things a little too literally, don’t you think? Far more likely is the reason that you don’t want to see the changes; with change comes unfamiliar territory, and that’s something that even the world’s most experienced topographers fear.
You’ve loved your high school experience far more than you ever thought you would, and now it’s difficult to let go.
So for a moment, I want you to take a look at yourself. Go ahead. What do you see? I’ll tell you what I see. I see a girl who is what we might call “vertically challenged”, but whose confidence and upbeat personality always make her presence known. I see a girl who is sometimes a little bit afraid of the consequences of failure, but whose curiosity about the world overpowers her fears and compels her to try new things. I see a girl who has fought against the ebb and flow of the social current to discover herself, a girl who has emerged as a leader amongst her 3,600 other peers, and a girl who no longer is too shy to speak her mind.
This girl is you, but the truth of the matter is: though you’ve emerged from your chrysalis over the course of your high school career thus far, you haven’t quite grown into your new wings yet. Senior year is full of so many amazing opportunities (and privileges, like going off-campus for lunch), just waiting to be unleashed. It’s up to you to make the most of it, and based on where you are now, I know that you will. Go full force. Find yourself a boyfriend (just kidding, save the search for later). Be spontaneous. Keep moving forward, because as you’ve already seen, that’s how you grow.
Cherish each and every moment because I can guarantee that senior year will go by in a blink of an eye, just as the last three years of high school have. Before you know it, you’ll be standing in the sun by your university’s lunch pavilion, studying your own shadow, wondering how time has once again managed to pass so quickly.
Enjoy (and keep me posted on your boyfriend status),
Kaitlyn
RidingRoundTown: I'm so excited for school :) →
Senior year…I still remember going into Ms. Chow’s first period chem class on the first day of school & being one of only two freshmen, thinking “oh great, here’s to high school”. Lol.. but that grew to be one of my favorite classes, and since that first day, a myriad of high’s, low’s, and amazing…
^ So true! :)
SENIOR COUNCIL♥
I had such a wonderful time today with SENIOR COUNCIL ‘11-‘12! I’m so glad that we were able to bond over hot wings, cake, and 10293092 types of food with 57983479 calories! We were so productive that we had lots of time for funny tangents and trolling certain council members and wii and Wong Fu videos and everything.
I guess I’m just trying to say…
I couldn’t be more excited to spend the coming year planning the BEST YEAR EVER for the Class of 2012 with these crazy hilarious people♥
workworkworkwork
I need to get to workworkworkworkwork or else I know I will regret it! Time to buckle down and get started :D Wish me luck and send me thoughts of productivity ♥
I am…
taking my senior portrait today. Senior. Huh. That’s weird. I thought that my brain would be cluttered with thoughts of zits and flyaway hairs, but it isn’t (they’re there, but I can’t really focus on them). Instead, I can’t seem to stop thinking about the fact that after three long years of waiting and working and studying and being a non-senior, I’ve finally arrived. We’ve finally arrived, Class of 2012!
Say cheese and let the memory making begin! ♥
