To the High School Senior,
2020 Vision, The New Decade, The Roaring Twenties; so many catch phrases that encapsulated your four years of high school. It’s crazy if you really sit and think about it. It’s always had the coolest ring to it. But it wasn’t supposed to end this way.
It all started your freshman year when you would scream at pep rallies, paint up for a football game, and practice for long hours to be as good or better than that senior on your team. You have worked so hard to get here. Finally, you made it and being a senior gives you this odd confidence. You realize this is when you need to start taking it all in, that these four years really did fly by. You go to school in August hoping time flies but slows down all at the same time. It’s football season and you’re going to every game, dressing up for every spirit day, going all out because it’s the last time you ever will. Then, December comes, you and your class are closer than ever. All the differences in personalities seem to not matter anymore because you realize you may never see these people again. You and your friends start getting accepted into colleges and you may be parting ways very soon. You play your last game. That caption you made on Instagram in August that said “The first of many last” is actually happening. So, what do you do? You plan the biggest prom group to go out with a BANG! You plan to get the perfect dress, the perfect date, photographer and all of the fun things in between. You get your cap and gown pictures made. You start making those graduation cards that’s on everyone’s fridge, but it’s different now because it’s yours up there. This time of your life is actually happening.
You wake up one day and your plans get rocked. All of sudden where you’re going to eat for prom doesn’t matter anymore because you may not go at all. Colleges start cancelling graduations and now yours is up in the air. Then it hits you. This whole time you’ve had three more months to live what everyone calls the best time of your life. But now you don’t know if you will get those three months. Now what? If anyone had an answer of certainty other than, God’s timing is perfect and His plan is greater than ours, we would give it to you. Our hearts hurt for you. Comforting words probably feel empty, but here’s the thing, this too shall pass.
My favorite part of senior year wasn’t senior year at all. It was the summer in between. The summer before you all move away. You have late nights with your friends. Drive around with the windows down blaring music with your best friends. There are lake days, pool days, beach days and just those days where you do absolutely nothing. The sun is out, and you are ready to get that tan that seems to always make you feel just that much better. You start your Pinterest board of your dorm room, buy gameday outfits, and meet the people from the college you chose. You start hugging your mom a little tighter. You see everything a little clearer.
So yes, your senior year did get cut short. But the best, the best is yet to come. Make a Tik Tok, learn to cook dorm friendly meals, take time to work on yourself and after this virus is over; after we never have to hear the words Coronavirus, COVID-19, or quarantine ever again, go and do. Go and do all of the things that you wish you could right now. Make the memories you feel you missed these few weeks in the summer. Take advantage of your time. Never let an opportunity pass you by. Like I said, it wasn’t supposed to end this way, but good thing it’s not over.
Alpha Love and All Mine.
Written by our very own,
Taylor Snider
PC '17
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