A Heads up I wrote this in High school.
Dear Fellow
Peers &
What
makes us fear growing up? What makes us not exceed our maximum potential? Is it
that we feel threatened or inferior of other achievements? Or maybe it’s the
fact that one day soon we will have to stop holding onto the past. That we
won’t be able to hide from our future and it’s events. Whether your future
occupation is a local gardener or a famous motor cross rider, you will be great
at it because you were born to do it.
In high
school we put up safety barriers around ourselves, because of the intimidation
of having to be something more than an average high school student. For most
high school seniors we have already had this realization come to us. So, now we
are facing the coming winds, head on with a fearful heart and a courageous
mind, both characteristics that we all should learn how to master.
As our
cards are laid out in front of us it’s our choice to pick and play or fold and
fail. It’s our choice to press forward to excellence or stay another regular
human being. A quote that hangs above my window makes this statement, “Life is what we make it. Always has been.
Always will be.” With that phrase I
strive to face every new day with a hopeful heart and optimistic mind, to be a
new me and make a better world for myself and for others. This is your life fellow student body, it is your choose to live
and take charge, leaving fears and nervousness in the dusty tracks behind you. It’s your choice; it is your life, no one
else’s.
Fulfill
your own destiny, chase after your own personal passions and have them become a
true reality to your life, discover once and for all dreams can come true.
Believe in yourself and find the personal strength that is screaming to be
unleashed from within you, let it out and be freely you. Maybe than we won’t be
in fear of growing up and becoming adults in the world’s society.
Take
chances and stop thinking. Quit wondering to yourself what if, stop caring what
the person next to you thinks, they don’t think and honestly I doubt they care.
Do something, because you want to, because you feel the need to shout it out to
the world, be proud of the accomplishments of being influential in a
spontaneous way. You wait around your whole life waiting for something amazing to
happen to you, but than nothing happens and you get discouraged with life. Let
me make this clear, nothing is going to
happen unless you make it happen.
Be happy
and comfortable with who you are today, walk with confidence and hold your head
high. Because, after high school no one will stress with statuses, even if you
dominated the top of the pointed pyramid or that you slummed to the crumbling
bottoms. No one will care, because it doesn't matter, it never did. Figure it
out for yourselves; you’ll know it’s true as well.
Be smart
and be courageous, stand out above the normality of each other’s lives. Be you
and be free.
S.M. Bjarnson
