The past two years have been as slow as they have been fast. Sometimes a month went by too quick, and at other times we could barely kill enough time to make it through an afternoon without getting immensely bored.
I think everyone has had their fair share of drama in these past two years.
Drama, love and friendships. All of these, out of which some have taken a turn for the better and the others for the worse.
Being sixteen and seventeen has been fun. I felt like the very clichéd phrase had come to be true ‘Old enough to know better, young enough to care a damn.’
These past two years were fun and easy. It was only after we were done with the partying and fun did we realize we had an exam the next morning.
I think I speak for quite a few people when I say we’ve mastered the art of studying an entire portion just a day before the paper.
With junior college came an increase in freedom. Things were different around us. People were different.
Life was good. Comfortable. With a familiarity of sorts, and with very little responsibility.
Life is still good.
We’ve all given our final 12th grade exams.
We’ve all celebrated the end of that era.
All that is left to do now is question the correction method as we face the outcome of our efforts.
I however, am not afraid of the outcome.
It’s the result of the outcome of our efforts that have got me thinking.
This summer has been the waiting room for what life has to offer us next. The world seems to be getting smaller day by day and yet seeming so big .The change has almost been palpable to me in the last few weeks and it has only built up.
It’s like the end of a great book.
The season finale of what was the summer of 2012.
However, it is the beginning of a new chapter in all our lives.
Time to make new friends, hold onto the old ones, make mistakes and move on.
Cheers to everyone who has turned 18 or will be turning 18 this year. 2012 is a pretty cool year to turn 18 in case the world does end.
A happy birthday to everyone who I have forgotten to wish or will forget to wish in this year despite Facebook, and in the words of Neil Gaiman
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”
Copyright © Kanika Chopra. 2012.
