Future - Kate Sommer

It feels like just yesterday we were freshmen entering high school and now we're nearly seniors. Over the past year I've watched my little sister enter high school, friend enter and exit my life, and my best friend get her first real boyfriend. So this year has been fairly eventful. One of the major things I learned this year was that if someone is always putting you down or making you feel unimportant then they're someone you don't want in your life. I lost a friend that I've known for years because I realized I don't want to be in a friendship where the other person thinks their problems are more important than anyone else's. Another major thing I learned was to not give up because something doesn't go your way. I tried out for GSA again this year, but sadly didn't make it again. Rather than moping around about what I could have been doing this summer and not doing anything I decided to take the opportunity to volunteer at the Living Arts and Science Center for a large portion of the summer. I've realized that with only one more year of high school I need to start living for me rather than for other people. To be perfectly honest I don't know what I'm going to do in the future but I know I need to do things that will make me happy and not things that would make other people happy.