Yesterday I made my decision where I will be attending college in the fall. I will be going to University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign! I decided to name this blogpost, "The Frog Blog: Off To The Next Lily-pad" because I see us (students) as frogs. Yep, frogs. Some of us jump to lilypads that are over in the next pond because they like to be individuals in their decisions, some don't jump at all because they are afraid of change, some jump all together with their friends because they can't stand leaving them for the next four years or the next 'x' amount of years.
In a few months, the only evidence of the class of 2013 ever being at Deerfield High School will be old school transcripts and the pictures of us being all together during our 4 years there. I feel like this is such a bittersweet thing. During the, what it seems like, 40 hour school days, I just want the work to end. I want the grades and competition and anxiety to end. I just want to be with everyone and be seniors forever. But, like the frogs and toads, we can't live our lives in water forever. We must move to land, move to college, move to new places. Bar Mitzvahs of our friends turn into weddings and baby showers. Our monopoly-money purchases of play houses and play cars turn into real purchases of adult vehicles and real homes for our families.
I'm jumping off to my new lily-pad in less than 7 months and since we are all jumping off to new lily-pads it makes me feel better. More hopeful for the future. We're all starting new but we can always go back to that old Deerfield High School lily-pad and reminisce. It's time for things to change. Nature makes sure that change happens.
Well said Jamie. This is exactly how I feel, and if I was a betting man, I would say this is how many seniors feel. I really liked your comparison to frogs. One part I would kind of disagree with is that, I don't really believe one always chooses what frog they are going to be. Many people have different situation and lead the to be a certain type of frog rather than them choosing to be what they want. Congrats on U of I by the way!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jordan, I thought the words frog and blog worked together so I wanted to write a blog that connected to that. I do agree with you that we can't always choose what type of frog we are gonna be, or even where we are going to land, but the fact we are all going away together is something very unifying!
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