To the Graduates Who Didn’t Like High School
An open letter to high school graduates. Fortunately, your story is just getting started.
Graduation from high school was one of the most uneventful experiences of my life.
Believe it or not, high school is not wonderful, meaningful, or beneficial for all who walk those troubled halls.
I imagine there are some who in 2020 when they were told in-person schooling was done for the foreseeable future due to COVID, celebrated. Believe it or not, there are high schoolers who wake up and battle whether they should go to school or commit suicide. As parents and popular kids mourned the loss of prom, sporting events, and the magical experiences of high school — other kids felt like they were given a pass from a life and world they dreaded every moment of.
In some ways, such a sentiment feels inappropriate. Graduating high school is something to be proud of. It’s an accomplishment; a feat of spectacular endurance and capability.
Graduating high school also just feels a bit mundane, if not dreadful.
Which is how high school felt for me.
I’ve come to find out that such an experience is not that far-fetched…
