How to make the most of my senior year by TechKat

"Dear Self: You are still not where you wish to be."

How I did it: Senior year has ended, but it was not overly remarkable. I didn't go to prom. I didn't go to homecoming. I didn't do too much at all... but I did skip three days of school to travel 2000 miles with my sister... and I think that counts for something.

Lessons & tips:

  1. There will be at least one public toilet that makes you think twice about sexually transmitted diseases
  2. and it'll probably be at a gas station that makes you think twice about rapists, too
  3. Men can't take directions. Women can't give them.
  4. If a GPS has a "Fastest Route" option, it should also have an, "Avoid Roads that will Impale Me and My Car" option
  5. Never let go with your left hand. Ever. Belay and be belayed.
  6. The only chocolate worth money is Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory chocolate
  7. Lying is complicated
  8. Falling asleep in the car can only lead to embarrassment.
  9. Trust your harness, but trust the pole you're clinging to more
  10. If you don't want too, do it anyway
  11. Cohabiting is a lot easier when you don't have to share a bathroom. Or dish duty.
  12. Little sibling will always get the short end. Always.
  13. Not even a ten-hour drive can inspire me to read The Importance of being Ernest
  14. Don't trust a deer. Especially a mule deer.
  15. When
    you arrive, you don't feel any different, but by the time you leave, it
    feels as though a fragile glass sphere that you've been kindling all
    week has shattered somewhere deep inside you.

Resources: Nothing. I learned that I made few true friends in high school.


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May 29, 2011, 10:49PM PDT | 7 comments | 10 cheers


Comments:

bookish

oh hon

this is a well-written contemplation on high school.

yes, that trip counts not just for something, but a Lot.

best wishes.

May 30, 2011, 01:09AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 7 cheers

TechKat

Thank You

Thank you. I feel as though no one will understand why this trip affected me, because the story itself is 7-8 years in the making… not quite half of my so-far short life. I’m not meaning to be vague and dramatic, but I suppose it’s a psychological way of saying, “hey, understand me, even though I never can expect you to. Understand it anyway. And accept it. Just listen.”

I feel like no one will listen. No one knows why the sphere, which is so delicate, has shattered. To be honest, I feel like I’m seeping out of the cracks and trying to get someone to seal the leak, ha.

I just typed a manifesto to a stranger. I’m so cool like that. :P

May 30, 2011, 08:47PM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

Lady of Shalott wishes peace and blessings onto the world.

I'm willing to bet..

That as the years pass, your recollection of the high school years will grow dimmer and dimmer.. and it’s ok.

You will forget more than half of what was in all those text books, and most of the students’ names, and most of your teacher’s faces, but will forever remember this trip like it happened only yesterday.

The post is an excellent read, by the way, thank you for sharing.

May 30, 2011, 06:54AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

TechKat

Thanks!

Thank you! I’m surprised to see that people like it, haha. My inbox this morning was a mess… and now I have 17 cheers to give away today :D

I’m already having waves of nostalgia, trust me. Time is the enemy.

May 30, 2011, 08:49PM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

As a Phoenix Rising Declares 2013 to be The Year of Letting Go

Life is a Grand Adventure

that is not without peril. Mostly, I think high school is Peril. =)

Jun 17, 2012, 01:59AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

TechKat

Haha!

Maybe… but I’ve found that once you’ve made it through hell, it doesn’t seem so bad anymore… everything challenging I’ve ever faced in my life has been rewarding in one way or another and, in hind-sight, always seems easier than it actually probably was.

Plus I was thinking about it this morning and I think I’d rather relive (exactly as it happened) four years of high school than three years of middle school tribulations.

Jun 17, 2012, 08:58AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

As a Phoenix Rising Declares 2013 to be The Year of Letting Go

I am not unhappy about anything in my past

which is a pretty big statement, given my past.

I think everything in my life is a tiny puzzle piece to the person I am today. I’m pretty fabulous, so if just one tiny thing hadn’t happened…. I might be a tiny bit less fabulous! =)

Jun 17, 2012, 09:39AM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer


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