Essay About High School Experience

The summer before my freshman year of high school, I decided to have a party with all my friends. My dad had purchased a blow screen and a projector so I could watch movies in the back with my friends. My parent told me I had a limit of 16 of kids, I could have over and I thought that was ridiculous and like any other rebellious teenager, I invited all my friends over and told them to invite whomever they wanted. Instead of 16 people over I ended up having around 60 kids from my grade show up, including a some kid from valley that I had never even met before. Though many more people came over than my parents expected, they were not mad at me. That was something I always really appreciated about my parents, how understanding they were to my …show more content…
But like many other freshman, I had a false impression of high school. I had the idea that it was going to be an exciting expiernece where I would meet a lot of the older kids and go to “cool” highschool parties. I didn 't understand why people always said high school changes people. I thought me and my friends were going to be the ones to defy the odds, and that we were going to be close friends throughout high school. I also thought my boyfriend at the time was the love of my life and we were never going to break up. In my mind, I had a great bond with my friends and my boyfriend and that those bonds were indestructible, and nothing could damage them. I heard about rumors of kids getting into drugs and partying in high school. I remember thinking I would never do drugs and none of my friends would ever get into them either. At that time we didn 't need to drink or smoke to have a good time. I thought that was how high school was going to be, but now I know that I was …show more content…
People dating and being friends just for the “looks”,and not having legitimate feelings for another person. I have learned people are capable of anything, no matter how well you think you know them. No matter how close you are to someone they can hurt you, even if they promise otherwise. I learned that when you are the most vulnerable is when people leave you and when you discover who really cares about you. People change and grow throughout their lives and it is not our place to resent people for hurting us, but be mature enough to forgive them because holding grudges has never healed any wound. Nothing will ever really be be able to heal unless there is forgiveness because that enables you to move on in a healthy way. So now as I look at this picture I don’t see a lot friends getting together to have a good time. I see young naive teenagers who have no idea what they are getting themselves into. Contrary, I also see a lot of great individuals who have grown apart from each other. I still care deeply for them and wish nothing but the best for each and every one of them. Because I will never forget the time we all were so close, but I will also no longer dwell on the fact they will never be the same. I can never go back to the times we were all friends, but I would never want to because I know it was not real. Now I know what real emotions and feeling feel