Captured Thought: The end is near

During v-show, Mr. Wojcik was giving the pit band a "pep talk" and started talking about how v-show was the beginning of the end for the seniors. I had known for awhile that graduation and the end of high school was coming near. I hadn't, however, realized how soon it actually was.

Coming to Glenbrook South, I thought that high school would take forever. I figured it'd be the best, longest four years of my life. I figured I could take things slowly and not really take advantage of what was going on around me. In the past month I have realized how quickly things went by. It feels like I was just a freshman entering the school on the first day worrying about where my classes were and how the heck I was going to get from class to class in just five minutes. It feels like just yesterday that I was coming to band camp for the first time and going on my first band trip. I never could have imagined that my years in high school would go this fast.

Today, I was taking a tour at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and thinking about the next great chapter in my life. I was taking in all of the information my tour guide was giving me and putting it into a mental folder in my head so that it can help me in choosing which college to attend next year. On the drive home, I realized how similar my visit was to the visit I made to Glenbrook South in eighth grade. I started thinking about all of the great times that I've had in high school and how the end was really so near. This weekend was my last real school dance, I'm going on my last band trip in less than a month, I finished my last high school finals. The question that's lingering in my mind now is, What's next? How can I make the next chapter in my life as great as the one that's ending so soon?