We all have bad days. Sometimes we have bad weeks, or months and if you want to – stretch it to a year. This is something that we as teenagers cannot eradicate from our lives, we're all going to at some point going to have a bad day. Recently, I've had a bad two weeks, I caught a cold from a good friend of mine and have resulted in confiding in the only friend I know for comfort; my bed. Though something crossed my mind whilst spending all my time laying there doing nothing – an idea about the future.
We're all growing up so fast, we don't really notice until one day another school years over and we're wondering “hey where did all the time go?” It seemed like only last week I was starting year 7, let alone starting A-Levels. We don't appreciate the time we have now until it's too late. It's inevitable that we're all going to grow up and move on from the lives we have now but I don't think it's really hit us yet that this will happen. I mean, people in year 12 with me don't have to worry about it so much as we have two years but maybe we should? A friend of mine recently left for university and I couldn't get my head around the fact that he actually left, he isn't coming back any time soon. Then it occurred to me that all my other friends that are a year older will be gone by this time next year and then soon it will be me. I didn't want to be spending two weeks in bed with a cold when I should be out there in the world enjoying what time we have left of this town.
“The best thing about the future is that is comes one day at a time” Abraham Lincoln. I think we need to start filling our days up to the brim with all the things we're going to miss when it comes to finally leaving. Our friends – those bad days where they got on your nerves or you want to seriously punch one of them in the face, remember one day there will be a bad day where you wish you could be wishing you want to punch them in the face. My best friend and I get on each others nerves all the time, but the other night we were talking about the fact we're not going to go to the same universities and then we're not going to immediately find work in the same area either. One day I'll be hugging her for the last time in a while and that was enough to make me realize how much I need to appreciate these next two years. I have just under 730 days to make the most of everything I have now.
We don't have time to leave words left unsaid; we always keep everything locked inside because we fear the worst. One day the opportunity isn't going to be there any more. Nothing is going to slow down the fact that one day we're going to be packing our bags and driving miles away. We have nothing to lose any more; we have nothing to lose but chances. I can't believe I ever thought for a second I wasn't going to cease a moment or reach for the moon because I am not going to have the same weather in order to do so for much longer. We can't plan for everything to stay the same, but we can plan for everything changing. This isn't the case for me but I know for some people reading this blog...you're whole lives has been here, been this town...and in less than 2 years it's going to be gone. Not forever, but the people and the atmosphere won't be the same. Don't sit there and think about all the moments you missed; I want you to sit there and think about all the moments you grasped.
I guess I should take this opportunity to say something cheesy I guess. I haven't lived in this town for as long as most of you and this will be the first school I would have been through start to finish – I am grateful for every moment and memory I have created along the way. It's been a rough ride man, imagine that – being 16 and life already having been such a journey. There is going to come a day where I won't be able to write blogs any more and that scares me. There will come a day where you won't have time to read them anyway. There will come a day where we're waving each other goodbye to move on to bigger and better things...and it's less than 730 days away.
So, we all have bad days. We all have problems and we all have times where we just want to crawl into bed and never come out. But we need to understand that the future is hurling towards us faster than we think, one day you're sat here reading my blog and the next you're reading my last before we head of to university or the world of work! I want you all to think about the moments you have now and to start ceasing every single one you never thought to in the past. It's time to stop worrying about what other people think and being yourself and appreciating every last second we have. To everyone already in university – I hope you feel you made the most of it! To those about to leave next year – good luck and enjoy your less than 365 days.
And to those who are like me...grab life with two hands bitches.
Happy Sunday!
We're all growing up so fast, we don't really notice until one day another school years over and we're wondering “hey where did all the time go?” It seemed like only last week I was starting year 7, let alone starting A-Levels. We don't appreciate the time we have now until it's too late. It's inevitable that we're all going to grow up and move on from the lives we have now but I don't think it's really hit us yet that this will happen. I mean, people in year 12 with me don't have to worry about it so much as we have two years but maybe we should? A friend of mine recently left for university and I couldn't get my head around the fact that he actually left, he isn't coming back any time soon. Then it occurred to me that all my other friends that are a year older will be gone by this time next year and then soon it will be me. I didn't want to be spending two weeks in bed with a cold when I should be out there in the world enjoying what time we have left of this town.
“The best thing about the future is that is comes one day at a time” Abraham Lincoln. I think we need to start filling our days up to the brim with all the things we're going to miss when it comes to finally leaving. Our friends – those bad days where they got on your nerves or you want to seriously punch one of them in the face, remember one day there will be a bad day where you wish you could be wishing you want to punch them in the face. My best friend and I get on each others nerves all the time, but the other night we were talking about the fact we're not going to go to the same universities and then we're not going to immediately find work in the same area either. One day I'll be hugging her for the last time in a while and that was enough to make me realize how much I need to appreciate these next two years. I have just under 730 days to make the most of everything I have now.
We don't have time to leave words left unsaid; we always keep everything locked inside because we fear the worst. One day the opportunity isn't going to be there any more. Nothing is going to slow down the fact that one day we're going to be packing our bags and driving miles away. We have nothing to lose any more; we have nothing to lose but chances. I can't believe I ever thought for a second I wasn't going to cease a moment or reach for the moon because I am not going to have the same weather in order to do so for much longer. We can't plan for everything to stay the same, but we can plan for everything changing. This isn't the case for me but I know for some people reading this blog...you're whole lives has been here, been this town...and in less than 2 years it's going to be gone. Not forever, but the people and the atmosphere won't be the same. Don't sit there and think about all the moments you missed; I want you to sit there and think about all the moments you grasped.
I guess I should take this opportunity to say something cheesy I guess. I haven't lived in this town for as long as most of you and this will be the first school I would have been through start to finish – I am grateful for every moment and memory I have created along the way. It's been a rough ride man, imagine that – being 16 and life already having been such a journey. There is going to come a day where I won't be able to write blogs any more and that scares me. There will come a day where you won't have time to read them anyway. There will come a day where we're waving each other goodbye to move on to bigger and better things...and it's less than 730 days away.
So, we all have bad days. We all have problems and we all have times where we just want to crawl into bed and never come out. But we need to understand that the future is hurling towards us faster than we think, one day you're sat here reading my blog and the next you're reading my last before we head of to university or the world of work! I want you all to think about the moments you have now and to start ceasing every single one you never thought to in the past. It's time to stop worrying about what other people think and being yourself and appreciating every last second we have. To everyone already in university – I hope you feel you made the most of it! To those about to leave next year – good luck and enjoy your less than 365 days.
And to those who are like me...grab life with two hands bitches.
Happy Sunday!