Some people say high school will be the best years of my life. If this true, I may as well kill myself now. I hope on everything that my life gets better than it is now. That's what college is for, right? Or is it?
I hear the term "the college experience" quite a bit. But what exactly is that? Is college a time to prepare for your career? Or a time to prepare for your life? Is it a time to party and be drunk? Or a time to study and work toward a goal? Or can it be all of these?
I want to go to NYU. New York is where I long to be. But it's a long way away from rural Evansville, Indiana. My parents tell me to quit dreaming. But isn't that what college is supposed to be? A time to find our dreams and make them reality? A time to take everything we have ever wanted and turn it into what we have?
The college experience for me is a time find out who I am. I don't think I can do that where I am. I feel stuck. I don't want to be here. I have a year and a half left of high school, then what? Can I go realize my dreams? Or should I be more realistic and stay here in good ol' Indiana with my mommy?
Why is it when we're little our parents tell us to dream big but when it comes time to find those dreams they tell us to stay home? I just want to move to New York and find my best friend waiting for me there. But what if she decides her dream isn't good enough to act on? That's a possibility at the moment. I hope we can find with in ourselves to fight the critics and take what we've wanted our whole lives. It's time to say no to the nay-sayers, it's time to defy gravity. I'll fight my way to City alone if I have to. But when I make it to New York at the school of my dreams, I'll be glad I fought for my dream. What else is there to fight for?
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