WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU’RE JUST DONE

Honestly, I’m tired of having the same schedule and feeling like my days are stuck on repeat. It’s been nearly four years of high school already, and I feel like complaining like I’m a “Harry Potter” character trying to escape Azkaban. Don’t get me wrong: there are things that I still like about being in school, but at this point, I just feel like I have too many things that I’m excited for and ready to do. The more jobs that I have, the more I feel like I’ve actually figured out what I want to do and how I’m going to do it, and with only three required credits left, I’m trying to only be at school when I need to be and go out and do the other things that feel important to me.

After so long, I think that we all tend to center our lives around the day-to-day, and being a high school student is no different. Our lives sometimes feel like they don’t leave the same building even though our minds want to travel. Personally, that’s why I decided to only attend Heritage part-time while still being a full-time student and earning more than enough of the credits that I need to graduate, only staying more for clubs and the two classes that I just had to have even though I didn’t technically need them: Journalism and AP Spanish. Everyone can start to feel trapped after a while, especially if you’re anything like me, but there are always other options outside what is apparent, even if you have to look a little harder to find what you’re wanting out of your life.