December 6, 2009.

Wait, what?! December?!

As I write the date on the top right corner of my homework assignment, I sit still for a while. Is it really December already? There’s less than a whole month left of 2009?

I can’t believe this. Just six months ago, I was complaining about the year going so slowly. I worried, “When will I ever start my college applications?” And now, here I sit in front of my computer, realizing that 2009 is about to meet its end.

Somehow, as I look back into this year (although I still have a few weeks until this year is really over, I’ll take a head start.), I believe it could have been both the best and worst year of my high school career.

I had my ups and downs. I could look back at one of my memories and just smile for the longest time, mesmerized by the emotions, sounds, and scenes that had been present at the time. I could also look back and feel tears about to fall down my cheeks as I remember the hard things I went through. At the beginning of this year, I didn’t expect myself to be caught up in so many new things going on in my life.

Right now, it seems as if I was ambushed with all the good and bad surprises all year long, unknowing of what would happen the next week, the next day, or even the very next hour.

My goal now is to make the rest of this year somehow as positive as I can. Do whatever it takes to assure yourself that you won’t regret how you spent the last several weeks of the year 2009.

Make it special. Make it fun. Make it real.

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