STOP! I don't want to talk about it...

 I texted PJ while I was at work on Sunday, May 1^st, and said,” oh my goodness! It’s May, I’m freaking out graduation is right around the corner.”  If anyone knows anytime anyone or if either one of us brings up the subject “graduation” we say stop! We like to avoid the subject. You can say it’s because we’re not ready to realize that our lives will change dramatically or that we’re officially done, never going back to high school to have the same classmates or the same teachers we were blessed with. Or maybe it’s because we know we won’t see all the people we grew up with every week day like we were use to. Or because we know that sadly we’re going to have to separate and go our own ways.

Its difficult talking about graduation in general, yes we feel accomplished, yes, we get to start our own lives, yes, no more hiding to text or getting in trouble for being late but there’s a sense of comfort you feel that you will miss. I know I will. But now all I can do is remember the memories I had with everyone.

I remember everyone in junior high. We were so young and innocent, literally.  Naked faces, none of us used makeup at that point. We all sat at that circle table underneath the gazebo, if you ask anyone they’ll know what you’re talking about. Talking and laughing for hours was our routine every day. The boys would be playing basketball on the basketball court and all us girls watching them like they were our prince charming. I remember me and Tess would whisper our secret crushes to each other, while the other girls would try to listen. It was good times; we were all childish and foolish, not a worry in our mind. We laughed at everything I remember once Jade, PJ and I hysterically laughed at one of the letters from Safeway because it began to twitch and one of us said, “Look! Safeway is on crack.” We had a great time in junior high.  8^th grade, it felt as if all our class was so close, like an unbreakable knot. Little did we know the knot would eventually become loose.

Then came high school, if you asked any of the girls they would tell you they were terrified. We stepped foot on campus and all we saw were much taller classmates, new teachers, got harder work, but we had each other and that was a huge comfort. New experiences allowed us to get closer to our older classmen, and as a result we gradually started to part from each other. Some of us even at one point stopped talking to one another not because we hated each other but because we had nothing to say to one another. But fate is a beautiful thing and as senior year began to approach, we started losing our older classmates, and once again we were reunited with one another, just like good times. And with the championship we all had the opportunity to experience, my class became closer because of it. I know every class reunion it’ll be the thing we will always bring up.

All I can say is I’ve had the time of my life with all my senior class and teachers. And that all the memories we have had together is something I will carry with me always and forever. So I leave you with the phrase from the song by Vitamin C, “As we go on, we remember all the times we’ve spent together and as our lives change from whatever, we will still be friends forever.”