Hayden Berner 2 "Time Flies"

So I have been thinking a lot lately about how quickly time passes. Everyone tells you “Your high school years go by just like that!” and for dramatic effect they snap their fingers right in your face. I never truly believed that I would miss high school when it was gone, nor did I think it would go by so fast, but now that I am nearly half way done with my Junior year it feels like my high school days are slowly creeping up on me and coming to an end.

                                                

Everyone knows that feeling of a week dragging on and on and on and on (much like this sentence) and then BAM its over, and you feel like you got so little accomplished in a week that felt like an eternity has passed. That is how I feel about high school. During my freshman and sophomore year I hated school, I wanted to be doing other things and each day dragged onto the next, but my junior year has been different.

Now do not get me wrong, school is just as rigorous and I would like much more to be outside or with my boyfriend or anything else really than being in school. However, this year is different in the sense that I am trying not to take it so much for granted. For example, going to state this year with the girls soccer team was such a great memory to be present for, but I also realized after we lost, that I would no longer be playing with the girls (seniors) that I had been playing with since I was eight years old. I mean that felt like it was just yesterday that I was so young, meeting them for the first time and going to tournament with them and staying in hotels over weekends and having long commutes to games. When I came to the conclusion that that chapter of my life was over I started balling my eyes out, it is such a scary feeling to know that the people you have known for years throughout your childhood are growing up, and it is even scarier to realize that you are not to far behind them.

I have one more year of school, one more soccer season, one more prom, one more summer break, and so many “one more's” that I can not think of at the moment; and after that I will be moving on to college! It really is a crazy concept to think about, but I guess it has to happen sooner or later.

I am just hoping that I can make the most out of the rest of my junior year and live it up my senior year.