Ever since I graduated from my Yale program my family have been talking to about college. I don't mean my mother and sister when I say family because they have been talking to me about it since like elementary.. my mother at least. When I say family I mean my aunts like the the ones from North Carolina and ones that I only talk to occasionally from across state. My great aunt, my second cousins, great grandparents, older cousins, grandparents and it is all just so amazing to me. I never knew that all these people we excited and proud of me in the ways that they have been showing.
It is crazy because I have been wondering what I'm going to do this school year once I'm settled with sending in my college stuff. Who would I become best friends with, what will I do during my free time. In school I have tons of friends don't get me wrong. But it's not like I try to hang out with them on a daily basis outside of school unless I'm going to some type of game or party. To top it off my best friends either live out of state far away, graduated and are busy in college, or work part time after school.
During the past three years of high school I was busy trying to be friends with people who would either use me, didn't care, or I built relationships that wasted my time.
All of this college talk and applying made me realize something. This is my last year in high school, my last year being a kid, my last year that I will spend everyday with my family. And the last chance I will get to spend a lot of time with the people who love and believe in me the most. That is what I'm going to do this year. I'm going to use up every minute I have. If it has nothing to do with school or college I'm going to spend it with my family. But don't get me wrong, because I am still a teenager, I'm still going to parties and games with my friends from school. But I'm going to be more wise and thoughtful of my decisions.
