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Past and Present

Chenysse Hill

High school is supposed to be the best four years of your life, but is it really? If you asked me this question when I started high school four years ago as a scared freshman I would have said no. I was by myself in a new school and I didn't know anyone. I had the choice of going to four different high schools where I grew up. None of my friends chose the same high school as me, so I was alone.

I was never the one to raise her hand first in class or be the first to talk to the new kid. I was a shy girl who hung out with only her close friends. This was the first time in my life where I had to make the decision whether to stay with my friends or branch out and discover life on my own. My mom always told me to "do what you want to do, not what your friends want you to do." That was when I decided to go to Lynn Classical High School. This was one of the hardest decisions I've ever made.

After days of wondering if I made the right decision or not, I realized that branching out was a way for me to become whom I was destined to be in life. At the age of fourteen years old, I learned that in order to be successful in life you need to be happy. But, happiness can come in many different ways. Success and happiness are two things I've experienced within my life so far and they have made me appreciate all the little things. You can do almost anything with your life if you put in the hard work.

With the blink of my eyes, the past four years of my life are now in the past. Growing up watching Disney Channel movies about high school students was nothing like the real thing. I saw no specific divide between the different types of people at my school; everyone got along. High school is a place where the teenagers think they are entitled to whatever they want because they think they know everything but in reality it is the place where you learn all the skills you need in life.

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