The last day of school was today. Another year’s gone by. Did I accomplish what I wanted to?
Lets see… as for getting good grades, that definitely didn’t get accomplished. Well, mostly only in Bio where I got straight B’s for the year including the midterm and a 68 on the final haha. Oh the joys of getting my report card… I definitely accomplished doing well in APCS, as well as making fun of the upperclassmen in there too xD. That was my main goal for classes – be the only girl (as well as only sophomore) in APCS and kick everyone else’s asses. Bwuahaha.
Getting active – that was definitely accomplished. I lost track halfway through the year of what I was doing. Anime Club, Newspaper Writer, Academic Team, Choir Accompanying, Student Council HR Rep, and the occasional Volleyball Club. I think that’s it. At least I stayed after school for more than 5 days through the year! Not to mention the Youth Service Day …fiasco…thing… ahaha. Plus all the Academic Team/Choir trips were freaking amazing.
Being less shy – well that happened around friends. For people I don’t know I’m still mute. Oh well.
Hanging out more – yes. Against the will of my parents but yes. HAH I’m getting a life. What now?
So I’d say overall it wasn’t a bad year. As long as my rank didn’t go down more than one (hopefully it went up more than one o_o) I’m a happy camper.
Meanwhile, I’m now a junior. What the BLOODY HELL if I do say so myself. Time really flies when you’re having fun. I never really noticed how fast it was going. Two years ago I was a freshman and I was inching to get out of that grade. One year ago I was a sophomore, grown a little but still inching to be older. And now I’m a junior and it seems strange. Two more years and it’ll be college. Ahhhhh save me.
Anyway, it just feels so weird to be growing up and changing. I look back at who I was oh, lets say about eight years ago and I see a totally different person. I see someone obsessed with school and 100%’s, a very reserved, shy, antisocial person with a few friends and one good friend. Thank god back then it was still elementary school and everyone was friends with everyone so I fit in somehow. I look at myself now and see a person who still cares about school but is somewhat lackadaisical about it, a more open, willing to make friends but still shy procrastinator who just wants to get the most out of life (which isn’t getting 100%’s). If there’s one thing I have to thank for this change though, as strange as it sounds, it’s the internet. A very close friend of mine and I were talking today about how the internet changed both our lives and I really must admit, it definitely did to me.
Bit of backstory for people who don’t know. BIT, not my life story.
I first started regularly going online back when I was 10, nearly 11 years old. I discovered Mugglenet Chat (Harry Potter fanchat) through a friend and started talking on there. The snowball effect started there. Through the next few years my life revolved around that chat and the friends I made there. I spread myself wider through the internet, joining Shurtugal Chat (Inheritance Series fanchat), becoming an admin there, and making more friends. I joined sites and forums about my various interests. Through the years I’ve found many friends, a few close friends, a best friend, a brother, and a sister. I’ve found love, I’ve found sadness, I’ve found hate, and I’ve found happiness. It’s a bit strange to admit I have more online friends than real life friends (although my real life friends are just as important to me).
However, I owe the world to the internet, just for simply existing and making it possible for people from all around the world to join up and talk. If it weren’t for the internet I’d probably be like the one kid who’s initials are AK and is obsessed with getting perfect grades. But thanks to the people I’ve met online I’ve realized life isn’t just about being valedictorian or whatnot, it’s about living life how you want to and getting the most out of the time that’s given to you. It’s about having a good time while doing the right things. It’s about learning and growing and trials and errors. But most of all it’s about having fun, because you only get to live life once and you never get it back again. And that is what going online for the past 5 years has taught me. My life at home is not exactly what you’d call the most fruitful life, so my eyes would have never been opened to real life had I not gone online.
For people who fear the internet because of all the things it has out there and “internet predators ohnoes!” I say this: all you have to do is be smart and choose the right places to go to and the right people to talk to. Through the years I’ve gone on chat rooms and forums I have not once been in fear of being stalked by some creep because I knew the environment of those places and the type of people who would visit them (or know they existed). I’ve not once been influenced by something negative (and yes I have seen many ad’s of negative things) because I knew better than to be influenced by something bad. The internet can be both an enemy and a blessing, but it’s your decisions that makes it either one. And if you make it a blessing it will be the greatest place you will ever find.
Wow that was a long post. I think this makes up for the lack of posts xD
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