gowing up?

its simply amazing how much people change over time,

one second your a little kid and the next your a grandparent.

looking back at memories of years past make me realize,

who have i become? i remember my dreams when i was younger.

 

i wanted to be a doctor or a vet maybe even the president.

i never wanted my heart to be broken. I wanted to fall in love and stay in love.

i wanted to be the popular kid with all the friends.

 

everything seemed so simple back then.

i cant believe how much has changed.

how many people have moved away and how many have changed majorly.

i miss the times when we had recess and naps.

 

why did we all have to grow up so fast?

when we were younger all we wanted to do was have fun.

then we wanted to grow up.

but now that we're there, its scary.

 

i remember how jr. high was such a big deal to us.

we thought we were so cool now that we had lockers.

that we didnt have to deal with the same teacher all day.

that we could do whatever we wanted to.

 

by the time it was over we all had realized how terrible it was.

and now high school.

the death of your childhood.

i remember walking through school on the first day.

 

i saw the people that i've known since kindergarten.

but it didnt seem like it.

everyone had changed.

we were growing up.

 

now we are halfway through jr. high and everything has changed.

for a while it was drama central.

but after we got over that it was so weird.

hard to explain the feeling i guess.

 

it seemed like for the first time in a long time

we were all friends just like in kindergarten.

so excited to spend time with each other.

we had formed a bond as a class.

 

its amazing what comes out of a hard time.

we grew closer.

the drama level fell and everything seemed to be going great.

we had finally found out how to handle each other.

 

but now that we are halfway done with high school,

and now most of us are looking at colleges,

it finally hit that in a very short two years,

we will be graduating.

 

i do have to say im kinda ready to leave this dumb little town,

but i've grown up here,

all my memories are here, good and bad.

and im about to leave all of this for a college.

 

its going to be crazy going to school with a bunch of people from all around the world.

meeting a roomate you know absolutely nothing about.

taking classes where you cant just get up and talk.

living without parents.

 

its crazy how fast growing up happened.

but when i look back at the past,

im glad to say our class has made it so far.

we are strong and nothing will hold us back.

 

class of 2013

 

Author's Note

some of my friends and me were looking through some old elementary year books today and it inspired me to write this(: