THE FUTURE

This has been a year of transitions and learning, to say the least. I'm kind of afraid of launching into everything that happened for fear that this will turn into a personal diary; I'll just try to compact it into something interesting but brief. I want to say I've learned a lot about myself, but let's face it, that's pretty dang cheesy.

Essentially, my junior year load was hard, or at least harder than last year. (If you thought it was easy... well, I probably just need to manage things better.) And a lot of drama managed to make its way into my life from outside of school, so that was actually pretty hard. But then, some good things happened. I relied on my friends a lot during the aforementioned drama, and I found out who's good for what; some people are good to talk to, some people are good about letting me stay at their house to mope, some people are good for just being there. In an unrelated but also good note, I started driving, which made me feel a lot older and more independent. And, of course, college visits happened! So college seems a lot more real to me--in fact, it feels like I'm going to college, not senior year, next year. I'm afraid I've contracted an early case of senioritis.

Overall, junior year's been amazing and also atrocious. There have been times when I've laughed so hard I cried, and some times where I thought my life was pretty much in the dumps. I guess that's life, though, and I guess that's the future; it'll be great and it'll be difficult and it'll be everything in between.

(Dang it, I was trying to avoid being cheesy. Sorry. I guess I can't stop myself.)