Everyone wants to be able to relate to something whether that’s a movie or writing. I am writing to the person who saw high school as over-rated and time-consuming, holding her back from getting a head start. A similar post can be found at https://www.theodysseyonline.com

To the Girl who hated high school, you aren’t alone. Movies portray high school as the “time of your life” where you make friends and go on endless adventures, but they are all wrong. High school is filled with working til midnight just to have to go home and do homework, and losing friends that you have had since you could walk. It’s filled with getting your heart broken and getting told you aren’t good enough to get into that school.

I am that girl who wanted to always be ahead and put more on her plate than needed, who spreads herself so thin in order to get everything done, and then gets pushed to the ground and told I am not good enough and I need to try harder. I have worked since freshman year and now have three jobs on top of 18 college credits and high school, only to be told my GPA is not where it should be to get scholarships.

I had more heartbreak and anxiety than I thought was possible in four years. From losing a childhood friend to suicide to getting cheated on multiple times and being completely blind to it. High school taught me how to cry in silence and to put a smile on my face even when I felt like running away. I learned how to hate my body because I didn’t look like those other girls, which killed my confidence and my perception of self-worth.

Now high school isn’t filled with just heartbreak and tears, you make memories and grow more as a person than you ever thought possible. You make new friends, fall in love, and you start your journey to become an independent and confident young women. All the hurt happens for a reason, just hang in there long enough to see it. 

So to the girl who hates going to school everyday, hates all the thoughts put in her mind that she can’t push out, and hates how her high school experience turned out to be, you are NOT alone. It will be over soon my dear and you will learn that life outside those cinder block walls, will bring you the happiness and confidence you have searched for over the past four years.