Minor, Ami - The Roller Coaster that is High School

Last Tuesday was my Last First day of school (K-12). It's crazy to think that I am now in my Senior year of high school, and about to close this chapter of my life. For the last 13 years come September, I've had the same daily routine. Wake Up, Eat, Good to School, Go Home, Repeat. To think that in eight shot months, that will come to an end is bittersweet. School for me is fun, it's a place to grow, learn, and constantly add new tools to my tool box. I remember on my first day of freshman year, my mom telling me that these next four years will just fly by. I also remember thinking to myself, there's no way it's going to fly by, four years is a long time. Well, I was wrong and my mom was right, these past three years have gone by in the blink of an eye, I still remember my first day of Freshman year, and it seems like yesterday. Yesterday! Over the last three years I've grown in so many ways, physically (well maybe not in height), mentally, and emotionally. I hold a better self image, I have more confidence, I strive to better myself in at least one way everyday, and I am more driven to chase my dreams. All of these didn't just happen, it took work, hard work, and determination, grit, and trust in myself that if I fell, I would get right back up and try again. Because, No Matter How Slow You Go, You Are Still Lapping Everybody On The Couch, if I don't get back up I am excepting failure, which is always an option. Failure is always an option but quitting is not. Avril Lavigne once said, Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life. And sometimes that roller coaster has to slow down before it can speed up, and if that doesn't explain high school, I don't know what does. It's a slow start, you can't just take off, think of a commercial airliner, you must line up on the runway before you can start seeding up to take off. Gradually the year speeds up, and gets faster and faster, then all of a sudden it slows down dramatically after finals and the end of the term, to coast out and speed up again. From there, comes to loops, loop after loop, and all of a sudden that ride that you thought would never end is slowly coming to an end and slowing down to a complete stop. Again, if this doesn't sound like this journey we call high school, I don't know what does. High School is not about the end result though we all love that fact that we can be done once we get our hands on that diploma, but about the journey and the path we pave on that journey. All that being said, we are all on our own roller coaster ride and no two rides are alike. But each ride will have its ups and downs, and  loop de loop, but it'll never be more than you can handle.

- Ami Minor
3rd Degree Blackbelt Candidate

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  1. Lia London, authorSeptember 12, 2019 at 9:59 AM

    High school is an intense microcosm, for sure. When you're in it, it can feel like the whole sum of existence. A year after graduation, you can't remember what the whole fuss was about. I'm glad you've figured out that it isn't the diploma (or social status, or prom date, or GPA, or extra-curricular resume, etc.) that matters, but how you grow as a person of character that matters. All the rest are just means to an end--a better you. Enjoy the ride, but don't fret it. You're an amazing young woman!

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