Short and Important

By Sam Gumprecht

It may seem normal– it is typically stated a lot by kids going through this time in their lives–, that all high schoolers just cannot wait till the four years of high school drift away– which they do no matter if you want them to or not. But Sam is not one of these people that is ready to just be thrown into the world head first, no more high school friends, away from home and lots of responsibilities. She doesn’t want to just leave the comfort and the happiness of high school in the dust. It as if everything has just sped up all of a sudden, it’s time to now search for the future and where her life will lead. All others are just counting down the mere hundreds of day till they leave and tapping their fingers in suspense, while she can’t help but be nostalgic. Her time to live with little restrictions, all of her best friends right at her arms reach and have nothing to worry about but the next paper, is slowly becoming a fleeting sunset of memories.

It might be too soon — considering the fact that there are many months before graduation of her senior year– to start getting sappy about the fact that some of her best friends are leaving her and that she won’t be at Hebron three months later– but she can’t help to think about how she is going to function in a new environment, it’s like the future has hit her like a brick wall out of the middle of nowhere. Sam is not ready for the fact that in just about a year and a half her whole world will be flipped upside down and everything is going to changed. The pit of emotions that gathers at this exciting and terrifying event is something that Sam thinks about a lot. She is not ready to leave home and to not be there for every moment that happens and feel a part of the family. Sam is not one of those people who likes to just wish away her precious time at Hebron, she understands its short and important.