The time is near, graduation, getting prepared to go off to college and moving on to the bigger things in life. As we move onto these varying adventures we should take a moment to look back on everything that’s gotten us to this point.
Time does not wait for anyone unfortunately and high school seems like it flew by, despite being told it would be done before we knew it, we spent our days making new connections, and taking advantage of the new opportunities to grow into the young adults we’ve become today.
High school comes with many ups and downs whether it’s acing an AP Exam to earning college credits or failing a class final you’ve studied all week for, they are all mini lessons that we can build from. To many, high school was scary at first, new friends, new classes and a completely different environment, but we found in reality it’s just a bigger version of what we’d already done in middle school.
What we fail to appreciate is all the uplifting moments we’ve had with our time here, and the valuable lessons we’ve picked up along the way in making our own names for ourselves at Prairie and for the future, Senior Deven Vigue mentioned, “Hard work is what gets you far in life, you know just messing around in class and not working hard in sports that doesn’t really get you anywhere but when you sit down and put the time in, it’s really beneficial.” Whether it was during class or on a Friday night at football games.
These sought after moments are things that slip past us without thought.
In reality however, they are the building blocks of our future and are a part of the legacy of which people will remember you by. Senior Jackson Loveall stated, “If I could do something differently when I first stepped foot into high school, is to take it more seriously, I thought it was all fun and games until it eventually caught up and had to do a bunch of unneeded work just to graduate.” With that being said ask yourself, “Have I accomplished everything that I’ve wanted to accomplish with my time in high school?” And “moving forward how will you apply these lessons towards goals for your future?”
