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Moving To High School

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It’s coming. We all know. We’re all terrified. We’re all excited. (Anaphora) We all want to run away and towards at the same time. (Antithesis) Graduation is approaching and there is no denying it.

I know some of you in this room have yet to start on your college applications. You cringe every time you have to think about the future. You would much rather curl up in fetal position and pretend like you’ve regressed back into infancy when you didn’t have any responsibilities. But that is not an option. Get your heads out of the clouds and face the facts. Graduation is swiftly approaching and this is no time to get scared or nostalgic. It’s time to take action.

We’ve spent the last 12 years in school preparing the big day in May. We’re all …show more content…

Others are exploring options regarding the military. Some are going to figure it out as life progresses. But right now. At this very moment, we are all, in some way or another, terrified of leaving high school. Perhaps we don’t enjoy coming to school everyday. The fact that you have to stay consistent with your workload, or increase it, to appease the admissions officers, and the employers, and the recruiters (Polysyndeton) doesn’t make you the happiest person. Hopefully, we do enjoy the somewhat free education, the time to be with our friends, and the opportunities to try new things without having to face serious repercussions. I, personally, am going to miss the friends I’ve made here. I’ll miss the teachers that made learning enjoyable and that actually cared about me and my concerns. I’ll miss the theater department and the clubs I was in. I’ll …show more content…

We will be entering a new playing field. Back to the bottom of the food chain we go. (Analogy) This leap we will be taking is going to be full of many obstacles, so we’ve got to stay strong. We’ll be cooking for ourselves, cleaning up after ourselves, and taking care of ourselves. No more mothers reminding us to eat a snack and no more fathers reminding us not to waste our time. If not directly after high school, then one day, it’ll be all on us. We will be expected to live up to everyone’s expectations. We’re all going to make mistakes. That’s inevitable. That’s okay. We’ll learn from them. We’ll have bad days where it seems like nothing is ever going to work out. That’s fine too. One day, everything will be fine. One day, you’ll look back and laugh at your worries. You’ll wonder why you were so afraid in the first place. The future is terrifying but also exhilarating. You just have to perceive it as

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