Junior High is about awkward moments, new friends, more homework, and fun classes. It's about learning, being young, and creating inside jokes. It's about trying something new and slowly gaining confidence. It's about being a sevie, then stuck in the middle, then the oldest; when grades count. It's about making goals that you try hard to reach, and not freaking out about that one A-. About dances where you are shouting at your dance partner over the loud music, then pretending you heard them. It's about the colorful sharpies that you sign your name with on others' yearbooks. The heavy textbooks you haul around and occasionally lose. It's about the locker filled with pictures of the Eiffel Tower and the com. that you forget about once a week. It's about finding lonely people to sit with out lunch, and bad hair days, and ignoring drama. Trying to understand your 'interesting' teacher and studying your heart out for a test. It's about being surprised about a person you had judged before. Playing in the band, singing in Rhapsody, wearing an Officer jacket, and putting on assemblies. It's about days you wish there was A.C. and days you wish there was a heating system. About hard, fun, and new experiences that get you ready for the real world. Reading books, finishing assignments at 12 am, and trying to stay on the ball. It's about the school some people call 'ghetto', that you love. About realizing new talents, staying after school to type, and coming in early for Geometry help. Junior High is about making memories that will last.
The world is big. It can be scary. It can be a lot of things, a lot of adjectives because well, it's the WORLD. But there is so much good in it. Make it your mission to notice the good in every day life. One thing that you can count on is the sun. It rises, it's warm, it gives light. Things we need. Things that are good, life sustaining, bright. Happiness is not a side affect of a perfect life. Waiting to be happy is just plain silly. Happiness wants to come into your life, in fact, it already has, so acknowledge and befriend it. Make it deeper and better with gratitude, consistence and effort. The good in the world is apparent and abundant, just like happiness. Focusing on the good doesn't mean we ignore the sad stuff going on, refuse to ever watch the news, or be ignorant of pressing matters around the world. It just means that you cling to hope, never give up, fight discouragement and let the good into your life. Let the good in, put some good out, let light radiate fr...
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