When we are younger, all we want to do is grow up. We want to be pre-teens and go to middle school so that we can play sports or have lockers. We want to be teenagers so that we can drive, have jobs (okay well I dont know about the jobs part but still), go to parties, go shopping with friends. We wanted to go to prom, some of us even dreamt of it. We wanted to experience our own individual wants in highschool. For most of our childhoods, we thought like this, never taking a second to realize just how fast we were growing up.
Why do we do this? Why do we try to grow up so quickly? I think this is probably just a normal part of life and growing up. Looking back on my childhood, I did still get so many experiences a normal child gets, but one big thing I can remember is dreaming of highschool. To me highschool was going to be “the greatest time of my life” (before I became an adult atleast). Now, after being in highschool for three years, I can say that my childhood self was correct, it is both the best and some of the hardest times in your life. Personally, I struggled a bit in the beginning but my junior year so far has been the best school year of my life. Highschool is filled with opportunities, activities, and new experiences. Highschool is something that goes by very, very fast and no matter how many times you are told that, you do not believe it until you experience it. Highschool is like our childhoods, you always are dreaming of that next point until you realize just how fast everything is going. Graduation is happening next year for me and while that will mean the end of high school for me, it will also mean the full end to my childhood.
I loved the opening because it 100% true and literally everyone as a child thinks that, so I like how it connected to the audience. And yes, we never really think we are growing up fast until we all of the sudden realize "hey I am a junior in high school and I could've sworn yesterday I was in the fifth grade". It is so crazy how fast it goes.
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