High School

As a freshman you enter high school feeling excitement. like a grownup, anticipation for the freedom of having you license later on, taking drivers ed and maybe even getting a new car. Yet you still have that little scene playing in the back of your head, like in the old movies where the new freshmen would get shoved into lockers, and get their heads shoved into toilets. That fear of not being accepted is never far away. You go from being the top of your school, "the big bad eighth grades", to the little ignorant freshmen who can't help but run into every person/locker/door they can possible. It's like a competition how many times can I embarrass myself between classes. Lunch is hard. It's a decision of who do I sit with, who will let me sit with them. The whole time I was thinking "avoid the seniors, don't fall on my face, don't dump my food on anyone or myself, don't look at someone to long, oh god what if I do look at someone to long and they punch me, how should I handle getting in a fight, wimp out, yeah just don't fight back, just wimp out crumple to the ground then maybe they will get bored and leave you alone. Or I could run, oh what if I run away and fall on my face, or run into someone causing them to fall or spill there food and I have two people who want to punch my face in!" It's just an never ending what if list. That's what I was think on the second day of attending my high school, I just kept thinking of all the bad things that could happen. At the end of my freshmen year it was actually a really good year. I enjoyed every minute of it. Even the times I got hit in the face with a locker. I am a very tall person, and got a bottom locker, long story short, it hurt. It happens. High school is something to be enjoyed, a prep for being on your own. Having fun and being responsible at the same time is the only advice I could give anyone just starting out, but deep breathing helps too.