4Q12

The first, obviously.  How could anyone in this class say anything otherwise?  I'm just about to go to college.  Until I graduate and find a job, I feel the second act will start.  But then again, how can anyone ever know which act you are in until it has passed.  You have to be able to recognize a change in one act to another to understand which act you used to be in.

When I moved here a year ago, I was completely uprooted from my friends and people that I knew well.  I knew nobody here.  Absolutely nobody, and that made me cynical, I feel.  I realized that high school is one big sham honestly, that it is one of the least important times in your life.  People always tell me high school, or ever college for that matter, is the best time of your life.  How can you say that?  Your life must be terrible if high school was the best time of your life.  There is no reason why it should be.  None of it means anything compared to the time after you graduate college and get a job.  High school is just a doorway to college.  That's all.  Personally, and I know nobody will agree with me on this, but I think the social aspect of schooling is not as important as everyone thinks it is.  We like to think that everyone cares about everyone in high school, but nobody does.  Nobody cares, like A Bronx Tale.  You think I really care about trivial things now that everyone makes the biggest deal over?  Of course not.  Why should I care about where the party is or how drunk everyone was there.  In 2 months time, I won't even see you for 7 hours a day.  High school is just a stepping stone, a small ass pebble in the grand scheme of life.

People will say that high school is important, and it is as an academic standpoint, nothing else.  Take an average adult and ask them if they are still really good friends with anyone from high school.  I bet you the vast majority would say no.  You think i would be 'friends' with any of the people I see in a given day at this school?  I am 'friends' with you because there is no other option.  I am forced to be nice to you.  Some of you are so weird and freak me out that I don't even feel comfortable around you.  Some people are so gross that I shutter to think of a time when the wind casts their stench upon me.  Some of you are so terrible and mean that I am surprised anyone hangs out with them.  People need to think prolepticly while in high school.  They need to look forward towards college and really growing as an individual.

All this might send some red flags up, and you might think that I am "unstable."  I can assure you I am not.  I am just tired.  I'm just stressed.  I'm just ready to get out of the 'best time of my life.'

There you go, Mr. Drago, Here's something longer than two sentences.  Take from it what you will.