Memoir: Coming Into High School
Memoir
Coming into high school ready to have the time of my life was a little over rated. I was 14 turning 15 and was not interested in much and now needing to have an answer to those inevitable questions What college are you going too? or What career are you planning to pursue? All of these questions put an immense weight in my shoulders and the only thing on my mind back then was whether or not I will be able to afford the latest Call Of Duty title. Up to that point I had not thought of what I was going to do. On top of that I was quickly losing all of my middle school pals until I figured it all out. Adulthood was just around the corner and I could not be worried about these people no more. I had to grow up and not impress the people around …show more content…
That being said highschool has changed me a lot more than anything else in my life could ever do. I was independent and had to speak for myself and do things for myself. Coming to the reality that when high school is over there is only me to fend for myself. “Friends” will have to do the same juggling college, work, and other hobbies. Being the captain of the football team won’t mean anything, cheerleading, basketball, even academics. When high school is over, so do you in a sense. You have to work your way back up in college competing with people that actually care about their studies or NFL prospects, etc. Nothing right now will matter 10 years from now. All this occurred to me once I started to work making money which, inevitable, will be the goal for everyone. Sitting in class learning about how to write a memoir and turning in essays will not get me paid. They say work smart not hard but their still are hard workers that don’t want to be cooped up in an office on a computer all day. I am one of those people.
This mindset changed my life.
No longer do I let other people distract me from my goals. I like to consider myself as alone but never lonely. High school has made me rethink a lot of principles that I held myself too but more than anything it made me grow up. I can now answer those tough questions that were thrown at me as an adolescent. I can
Coming into high school ready to have the time of my life was a little over rated. I was 14 turning 15 and was not interested in much and now needing to have an answer to those inevitable questions What college are you going too? or What career are you planning to pursue? All of these questions put an immense weight in my shoulders and the only thing on my mind back then was whether or not I will be able to afford the latest Call Of Duty title. Up to that point I had not thought of what I was going to do. On top of that I was quickly losing all of my middle school pals until I figured it all out. Adulthood was just around the corner and I could not be worried about these people no more. I had to grow up and not impress the people around …show more content…
That being said highschool has changed me a lot more than anything else in my life could ever do. I was independent and had to speak for myself and do things for myself. Coming to the reality that when high school is over there is only me to fend for myself. “Friends” will have to do the same juggling college, work, and other hobbies. Being the captain of the football team won’t mean anything, cheerleading, basketball, even academics. When high school is over, so do you in a sense. You have to work your way back up in college competing with people that actually care about their studies or NFL prospects, etc. Nothing right now will matter 10 years from now. All this occurred to me once I started to work making money which, inevitable, will be the goal for everyone. Sitting in class learning about how to write a memoir and turning in essays will not get me paid. They say work smart not hard but their still are hard workers that don’t want to be cooped up in an office on a computer all day. I am one of those people.
This mindset changed my life.
No longer do I let other people distract me from my goals. I like to consider myself as alone but never lonely. High school has made me rethink a lot of principles that I held myself too but more than anything it made me grow up. I can now answer those tough questions that were thrown at me as an adolescent. I can