Graduation is in two weeks. I think it’s weird how people have such different viewpoints on the same affair. In my class of about 40 people, I’ve seen two major perspectives:

1. “Thank God school is almost over. I want to get out of here and never come back. I’m so sick of school.”

Above is a very common phrase I hear in the hallways. It seems to me that people bottle up all their hatred and contempt for school, then choose to release it only during the last couple months of Grade 12. People that I’ve gone to school with for 12 years that have been normally happy and content have suddenly grown horribly opposed to school, and have the urge to leave and enter the ‘real world’ as soon as physically possible. Whether that’s actually what they feel like, or if it’s just a kind of a ‘mask’ that they put on to make themselves seem more mature and adult-like, I don’t know.

2. “Awuh! I don’t want to leave! I want to be with you guys forever! Let’s all fail so we can stay together!”

This phrase isn’t heard as often as #1, but it’s definitely still present. Spoken by those who have a hard time coping with change, and would like nothing more than to keep doing what they’re doing for the rest of their life, even if it’s Math C30 and Calculus. I’m not sure if their desire is to stay with all their classmates, or if they simply don’t want to deal with life outside of High School.

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Those are the two most widely expressed opinions that I’m aware of. As for myself, I don’t think I would put myself in either of those two categories. I think that I’m glad that High School is almost over, because I’m looking forward to University and studying something I actually enjoy (Computer Science). However, at the same time, I’m friends with pretty much every single person in my class, and once school is finished, everyone is going different directions. I just doesn’t seem fair that you spend 12 years of your life making friends and building relationships, then once Grade 12 is over you never see the majority of those people again. I think it’s this fact that I have so much trouble coping with.

Thank God for the miracle of technology, and thank the series of tubes for the invention of Facebook. It sure is a hell of a lot easier to keep in touch via Internet compared to snail mail.