Some of the greatest parts of your senior year of high school will be your high school graduation and your senior prom. Your senior year is a time of growth and a time of change. This is when you will choose your college and discovering who and what you want to do for your career in life. This is also a time when you will have to prepare to leave most of your friends behind as you move into the world and discover new friends.
While your senior prom will be a time of celebration and your high school graduation gown can also be a time of celebration. It is a celebration of your change from being a high school student, to becoming a member of the adult world. While it may be years before you grasp what being an adult fully means, with the hard choices, you will be getting your first taste of it at your high school graduation.
Your senior prom, basically a party, with food and music, is also the beginning of your time to say good bye to the friends you have made in these 4 years since you started as freshmen four years ago. You are celebrating the change that will eventually lead you into adulthood. This is a time when you grow from being a high school student, a big fish in a small pond, to a college student, a small fish in a big pond. While you will always remember your high school sweetheart and your best friends, you most likely will have to say good bye to them.
Your high school graduation is also a time of celebration and change. As you sit through what, at the time, may seem like a very boring ceremony. You will come to look upon this time as a beautiful moment. You will see your high school graduation for what it is, your community coming together to celebrate your change from a student to an adult.
When it comes time for you to attend your senior prom, then on to your high school graduation, take the time to make memories. Enjoy your remaining time with your friends and let go of them with pride, knowing that although you are leaving behind the friends who have been there for you these past four years, you are stepping into a world where you will make more friends. As we grow, we change and with this change comes the letting go of the old and embracing the new.
I know that change can be scary, especially when it seems that you are doing it alone, but instead of thinking of it like it is something that will just change you, think of it as growth and maturity that has lead you to this point. Although your friends and yourself will be going different paths that may never intersect, this is the way of adulthood. This is a time of letting go of the past and moving on to the future.
