Thinkings on the Past and Future

2008 was a building ground for 2009. I took my SATs, applied for colleges, and started my senior year of high school. Of course, there were lots of crisis and achievements within that time, but school dominated my life in 2008.

By far the low point of 2008 was my mother’s tumor and surgery. It brought on unknowns and possibilities that I had never had to deal with before. In the end, it also worked itself out and my family is back to the same point it was before.

2009 is going to bring a lot of changes to my life. I’m going to decide what college I want to attend, move away from home, and go through my first semester at colleges. While 2008 was filled with the anticipation of all of this, so far this New Year I’ve been feeling a bit anxious about everything that is changing.

For the most part, I’ve chosen to write about school and such, because everything else in my life is always changing. I know that it’s part of high school, but it seems like I have new friends and people involved in my life each week. The one personal goal for me for 2009 is to stop gossiping so much. I have cut back a lot but I find myself judging others and paying attention to all the rumors that seem to float around. Note to anyone who is planning on coming to Technology High: Rumors fly faster than you have ever experienced before. Everyone will know who you’re dating and so on, in an hour. No joke, give it an hour and seniors will know the darkest secret of the freshmen they have never met. My one resolution is to cut myself out of that picture.

I know that it sounds corny and lame, but I also want to start actually being true to myself. I have put up hundreds of personalities in the past, so I think I’m actually going to try to stay the same person no matter who I’m talking to. I know that it probably won’t happen, but I’d like to try to be an optimist.