Age 17 or 12th Grade
This was the year I realized that it was okay to be me. I stopped being ashamed of the fact that I love Buffy. I stopped worrying about what everyone thought of my clothes or my hair. This resulted in some pretty fabulous ensembles & pink hair. Yep, pink. My hair has also been black, blonde, brown, red & most other fun colors like that. I had great friends & a lot of fun this year, but I was ready for high school to be over.
I didn't go to my Senior Homecoming. I was at my Senior Prom for about 20 minutes - just long enough to see the most fabulous people win for king & queen! You know how normally it's the popular kids that just get picked for all those things & they win every year - yeah that's not what happened my senior prom. It was awesome & I loved it!
This was also the year I met my husband. (The picture above is me & a friend, not me & Lewis.) Our anniversary is coming up in October & I've got something planned to share more about how we met, but basically some friends of mine from high school introduced me to him. We went on a date in April of my Senior year of high school. We didn't actually start dating until August after I graduated.
Overall high school wasn't that great for me - especially seeing how life got after I graduated. Things were harder in a lot of ways, but I found myself after high school & I discovered friendships that were stronger than a lot of things I know & I experienced things I never thought I'd get to experience. High school was necessary, but by no means was it the best years of my life.
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I think highschool was a difficult time for everybody including the popular kids. I always like to say "not everything is always as it seems." In highschool, I guess I was labeled as being one of the cool pretty girls, but I was a nice one I swear. I wore my happy bubbly face every day, but it was all a facade. I was insecure and unhappy with who I was. I made a ton of mistakes. College was the growing and finding myself experience I needed. I like to think that growing and finding yourself is an eternal process that is constantly maturing and changing, but I know I am certainly happier with the girl I am today then the girl I was then and I would never want to go back.
Though I had my low points in high school, I definitely had more high points! I miss high school very much, life was much easier then now getting to experience adulthood, gee we thought highschool was so much work LOL I would give anything to go back haha
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oh I hated high school. could be because I was so shy i wasn't social. i bet no one even remembers me. life definitely got better afterward.
If you notice, the most interesting and dynamic people come into their own well after high school. I enjoyed high school but I would never say they were the best years of my life. I'm in my mid thirties and only now I'm learning to accept and appeciate myself. It's been a long road, that's for sure.
I love that you were cool with yourself by grade 12. I am still working on that, but think that I am getting there.
Sometimes, I imagine going back to highschool and doing it again knowing what I know now. That would be fun. I would stand up for the kid getting picked on, laugh at put downs, and hold my head up high.
Ugh! Hated high school. I am SO impressed you realized it was OK to be you in High School. I wish that I had. It took me many years to discover who I am to feel good about it.
I guess it's up to us who learned {eventually} to pass on the baton to the girls younger than us and help them get through it.
In a way, I think that's why we blog.
Amen! Honestly, I don't think the best years of ANYONE'S life were in High School, and if they were I feel bad for them.
How are you this week Cameron? Hope all is well with teaching!
Amy
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