High School Judgement Day

The day is coming. You know twenty years after you graduate. That first highschool reunion will come pretty quick. God, I'm not even looking forward to going to my sixth grade reunion next year. But let's be honest. That's anyone's judgement day.

So let's stop kidding ourselves and be honest. How are we going to measure up? I know it has been an excruciating task, in school and I agree at times it is the most pointless thing someone could ever go through. However, that's not the kind of judgement I mean. I mean as a person all around.

I know that when I go in to that reunion next year I'll hope to see all my old friends. The ones that I have lost over the last eight years. I hope we can all see how much we have all changed. I remember when we were amazing friends. It was difficult not to have a crush on someone one of your classmates didn't know. I mean I remember being chased by about 4 guys back in sixth grade and since then, I dated one be fore he dumped me and watched as the other three dated my once best friends and forgot about me.

Yet, I know that I also want to remember how much we stood up for one another. There were never any fights in sixth grade, of course if I remember, it was because there were about seventy Yard Duties watching about 40 of us. I mean every teacher in the school would probably have been on you if you did. So instead we all resolved our issues through the sixth grade government. I was one of the main leaders at the time. I had the diplomatic immunity of some great politicians. I mean I ran KTV, the news of the school. Without me, they had nothing. And then you had the main jocks, the nerds, and the wallball and four square junkies.

We had an entire government to ourselves. We resolved it quietly, slashing holes in the balls. My connection cords and camera vanished several times. And I know that means, that when I go back, that I will be judged for what my group did to the entire school population. Yet, for what it's worth. I am now sorry for what I did. Yet, what I did was done and can't be taken back.

But for those reading, I hope you go back to your reunion, alot smarter than I am about to next year. If you're still in school and will have to go back in twenty more to see all the people you hurt, never said, "I love you." to, and had to remeber everything else one could regret, then make the most of the rest of your years.

School may be hell, but like the path of a christian, it's miserable if endured alone. So really, don't do things you will regret. You have the power to morph the lasting years of school that you have into possibly the best years of your life. Don't go to judgement day and know you'll fail. Go, knowing that yes you weren't proud of some things you did during your school life. However, you lived them the best you could and you don't regret never telling someone, even if they are a nerd that you liked them. Don't be stupid and listen o fak friends bash one another. And don't go and regret that one night stand or stands. Don't do that now, and begin regretting every miserabl year of school.

Lasting forever, is the truth of knowledge. Go into judgement day, remembering the great times. The school spirit, Homecoming games against school rivals. Everything that makes the miserable thirty eight years that lead up to judgement day, worth it.

Let's face it...those that live to see past judgement day will be back in five lears later. And when I go back and remember my friends that have fallen in Iraq, going to other countries and helping those through art, literature, and music, I will have passed my judgment day, for I will not be alone.