Bona fide Text
High schooler no more
Some say high school is a stage of life just like no other. But to me, it means something more than just that – it defines who I am and who I have become. Today, I am writing in bliss with a smile on my face while reminiscing my learning experiences during high school. I have come to realize how high school taught me things books couldn't teach.
This is the time of my life I learned that friendship meant something more than just sharing a box of cookies. This is the moment I learned to accept truth about myself. This is the chance I have to be the greatest person I could ever be. But most of all, this is the opportunity I have to explore the realms of the world without fear-face of humility, failure and disappointment.
High school triggered pearls to fall down the apples of my cheeks. It made me glow bright red when I am overwhelmed with happiness. It allowed my eyes to shine with excitement when I learned. It broke my heart when I failed to look after the brother who loves me. Yet, these entire feelings make the whole package complete. Without the tears, I couldn't define my happiness. Without failing my brother, I couldn't realize how effective I am as his role model. To be a high schooler means to be a person who showed great emotion, to be a person who will stand corrected and to be a person yearning to discover the world. I am living it up… and still do.
"My high school life is reaching its zenith. I would leave the portals of my alma mater. I would be a caterpillar in the world of butterflies ready to become just like them. I am about to move up in the ladder of life. I will become a high schooler no more. Yet, everything that ever felt made me who I am. Everything I can grasp I would bring with me 'till lifetime. High school is the life, yet somehow, I have to say goodbye."
These are the lines from "More than just that" by Aimee Lara Bacallan, one of the best editors in our school paper last school year. Aimee is currently studying in University of the Philippines-Diliman.
Indeed Aimee is really right. It would remind me of the song popularized by Sharon Cuneta "High School Life." High school is considered as one of the best days of learning, having fun and discovering most things in life. It is just like the start of shaping the foundation for a higher education.
Education is the true foundation of success in life. It is the best gift that our parents can give us. Lucky are those who are studying in exclusive or private institutions because their parents can afford to pay the tuition. For some, they tend not to study well and be contented of a passing score worst below passing, because for them education is not the true measure of success in life but the money that they can have in their pocket. I pity those who are willing to study but their parents cannot afford to send them to school even just in the public schools.
Anyway, high school memories are worth keeping. It is the stage of educational ladder where we were molded to become ready enough for what's next.
Aimee is in college now and I know she is making a good shot in her degree. Whatever she will attain in the future is her choice and not by chance as others would say.