The Finale
I want to start this post with 3 quotes that rang very true for my time in high school, and I hope they can either inspire or help somebody else to understand their experience. 1. "Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means." - Robert Louis Stevenson 2. "If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" - T.S. Eliot 3. "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." - Horace Mann The jumping point for this blog is "It was". Looking back on my high school experience, I have started to understand what life means and to an extent, how it works. I've made friendships that I value more than anything, I've had experiences that couldn't be replicated any other time in my life, and I've loved and hated nothi...