"It's been real, and it's been fun, but it hasn't been real fun"

Looking back on all my blog posts, most of them had something to do with what was happening that week. It freaks me out how fast this year has gone by. I thought I was going to be stuck in high school forever, and now there's only two REAL weeks left of school before exams. I literally cannot even begin to believe that high school is almost over. High school has taught me everything I know. I thought I knew a lot coming in, but I was wrong. The friends you start high school with probably won't be the same ones you leave with, and the ones you leave with probably won't be the ones you enter college with. Family is important; you may think they're annoying now, but when the countdown begins for college, you'll realize that they won't be there for you next year. A lot of things that you've always depended on them for will have to be taken into your responsibility. You'll do things you swore to yourself you'll never do. Things that will disappoint people, and things that will make people look up to you. But the most important thing I've learned, is that you will change. Your hair will change, your clothes will change, your body may change, but your WAYS will change. You'll find yourself doing different things then you would normally. You might start seeing someone else's view on things and change yours completely.

I'm nervous for college, but I know good things will come while I'm there. Once again, things will be changing. I expected high school to be the prime of my life, and obviously since I'm still in it, it has been. But along with those really amazing memories, come the heart wrenching, terrible memories. These memories will be with you forever, and the only thing you can do is make new ones and block them out. That's what I'm using college as. I'm going to remember all the good memories: dubnation, winning prom queen, graduation, blink concert, so many get togethers, but I'm going to overlap over the bad ones.

High school: it's been real, and it's been fun, but it hasn't been real fun. The real fun awaits.

"I can't tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is pleasing everyone"

I would call this type of person a "people pleaser." Someone who wants everyone around them to be happy with their actions. Someone who over does things for people, and changes their opinions in the face of different people around them. I think at some points I'm even a people pleaser. I want everyone around me to be happy with my decisions. I want my parents to be happy about where I'm going to school. I choose things based on other people, and not myself.  Sometimes, no matter what you choose, people aren't going to be happy with you. I always think that something might justify my actions, but usually they just make them seem far worse. My only suggestion is to do what makes you happy. Don't commit to a college that your parents want you to go to. Go to a college that's going to be well suited for YOU and YOUR dreams.

It's basically impossible to please everyone. You can choose to take your mom out to eat for her birthday, but someone in your family might not like the restaurant. The only goal here is to make your mom happy. Don't let other people's thoughts and feelings influence your every move. Do everything you want to do, and don't care what anyone else thinks.