High School... Awesomeness?
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Thoughts & Words of Advice From a High School Senior
Were you awesome in high school?
2400 SAT
36 ACT
5 on the AP
This is awesome, yes.
But is it really
Awesome?
Awesome is dancing through hallways
With your best friend.
Awesome is class pride,
Cheering for your classmates at pep rallies.
Awesome is learning about life
From a teacher who acts like a friend.
Awesome is the football team and cheerleaders
Supporting the marching band.
Awesome is working hard in your classes
Then going to sports practice,
Or music rehearsal,
Or club events,
To do what you love.
Awesome is staying at school until dinner
In order to clean classrooms and plan class events.
Awesome is encouraging notes
On bathroom mirrors.
Awesome is talking to the girl
Eating alone at lunch.
Awesome is the musical students
singing sweet melodies and strumming strings in the stairwells.
Awesome is watching the kid from math class
Place first in the state championship.
Awesome is receiving the grade
You worked so hard for.
Awesome is watching your teachers
Dance at assemblies.
Awesome is face paint and homemade posters
For rallies and games.
Awesome is cheering for the freshmen
Because you were embarrassed to be one before.
Awesome is the kid who videotaped
The first day of freshman year.
Awesome is the exciting anticipation of
The final point,
The final performance,
The final stroke on the canvas.
Awesome is sliding down grassy hills
On old cardboard from classrooms.
Awesome is playing basketball with your friends
And beating the class bullies.
Awesome is groups of students
Educating other students about how important their health is.
Awesome is that one time you learned so much
From what seemed to be the hardest point in your life.
Awesome is sneaking snacks
And sharing them with the teacher when you’re caught.
Awesome is watching your classmates
Pursue careers they’ll own one day.
Awesome is congratulating the robotics and tech kids
Knowing that they will invent the future.
Awesome is taking a week
To appreciate staff members who dedicate their year to you.
Awesome is students holding posters on the side of the road
For a “Feel Good Friday.”
Awesome is giant goodbye cards
For a classmate moving away.
Awesome is enduring drama
To participate in something you enjoy doing.
Awesome is burning lungs and dripping sweat
Working hard to represent yourself, school, and family well.
Awesome is showing your faith
By praying for students at your school.
Awesome is students walking across the gym
To apologize to each other.
Awesome is students
Raising the flag over the school every morning.
Awesome is students performing, producing, painting,
Pursuing their passions.
So who will remember awesome scores and grades?
Don’t get me wrong, they’re important
And awesome.
But not as much awesome as the awesome people
You surround yourself with
And the awesome memories
You create.
Find the awesome.
Spend time with what matters.
Take pictures,
Dance around,
Go adventuring.
It’s really up to you,
You can either decide that high school sucks
Or you can make it awesome.
Will you be awesome?
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