Be the Main Character
I sat down to write this and started a random youtube playlist (as one does ← hello sophomore me phrase) and the song: Complicated by Avril Lavigne was the first song. Now, this may just be a random song to others, but everytime I hear this I think of my older sister’s graduation montage (it’s a tradition my dad likes to show a montage of our lives so far at grad parties). I used to watch my sister’s montage like it was the movie Cars because I was like four when she graduated. I would cry and then rewatch it because a) she wasn’t in the house anymore and b) her life looked so fun and cool in this montage. Thinking about her montage, there was no footage of her sitting in class and taking notes or a class. Ok ok, maybe because it was 2009 and the iphone was just barely invented, but I think I latched onto this fact and made sure my high school was focused on the experiences and not so much on education. Now, I am not saying I didn’t work hard in school, because I did… I mean havi...