Moving Away From My Lessons

Moving away from everything you have ever known sounds like a very daunting task. It seems even more insane to move the summer before your senior year. Even though it was scary, moving 5 hours away my senior year taught me many important lessons. Just like Beowulf showing courage in his battles, I was courageous and started my whole life over. The giant move I made taught me that friends are not always true, happiness is self-caused, and life is too short to stay somewhere for familiarity.
Many people in high school assume that their best friends will be their friends until they die. While this has happened, it almost never is the case. People like to throw around the title “best friends forever” without realizing that as soon as graduation rolls around they will be split up just days after the ceremony. High schoolers also think they need to have these friends, they could not imagine being alone and independent. Moving down here, I was afraid I would not make friends and I was afraid all of my friends from where I lived would hate me. Soon I realized I had true friends that still loved me and talked to me almost every day. Surprisingly, my best friend that I …show more content…
Change is important to build character. Also, it is very hard to succeed by staying in the same place. If you stay in a tiny town for familiarity there will be no opportunity to come along. When I moved, I immediately faced so much opportunity. I was cast in a play and during a summer theatre camp I met the person who is over the theatre program at the University of Alabama. I will have to audition for her soon and she already saw me perform in the camp’s showcase. If I stayed where I was, it would be a lot harder to accomplish my dreams. I also would not have grown into the person I am today. This whole situation has helped me mature and is the groundwork for me to become a functioning