How to say goodbye to your friends when highschool ends 101--EJ Franco

With our senior years coming to a close, I would like to stress the importance of making the most of what we have left, and who we have left.
Tip 1: Make the most out of what little time you have
It all started with that bittersweet feeling of taking senior pictures with a cap and gown, where we didn’t even feel like seniors yet. But here we are feeling the same way, we aren’t ready to say goodbye yet. One thing we’re never guaranteed is the gift of time. The famous latin saying of carpe diem has been passed down generations, but the only time we recognize the importance of its meaning are the times when we need time itself. Finding a reason to get outside of the house once in a while to spend time with friends can make your things to do list with your friends much shorter, because even if that list lasts forever, the time we have to accomplish things on that list does not. Have you ever wanted to like streetrace with a friend and be extra like that when in reality you’re just going home with a bunch of people, yeah, been there done that. Have you ever wanted to make cringy tiktoks with friends to get famous, well I hope not, but if it makes saying goodbye to your friends easier, then by all means, chase that clout. 

Tip 2: Forgive those who have the tragic flaws of being human
Everyone has that one person in their life that has contributed to the negatives of high school memories, and one of the hardest things to do is to find that tiny little area of peace within yourself to forgive that person for whatever they have done. For whatever situation you have been in, just know that your friends are an important reason why you are able to get through the

rough times so that you can enjoy the happier aspects of life. Forgiving that person, or multiple people, can be one of the hardest things to do, but it also seems ironic to close a chapter of your high school life, with an open ended chapter of your never ending grudge against someone. Forgiving them for their tragic flaw of being a human is totally fine, because we can’t please everyone, and we were not created to be perfect beings either. If it’s a special situation where your friends are the ones who you must forgive, I guess that just means that you’ll have an even easier time of saying goodbye; not to be negative, but you’ll meet people who are just right for you in the future, whatever that might be.
Tip 3: Tell that one guy/girl they’re cute
I honestly feel like one of the most annoying things that adults say to us inferior high school students is that feelings in high school don’t exist. It trains our brains to live in fear and to stray from letting our hearts decide for themselves, whether that be learning from getting knocked down by a rejection (and getting back up of course), or the harder thing to do, saying goodbye to someone special, someone you won’t see for a very long time. Relating back to tip 1, part of clearing our conscience is getting things up and out into the real world instead of dreamsical fantasies, like the daydreams I have about that one girl, or five. My chemistry teacher once told me that she respects me for having the guts to even ask a girl out in the first place. In fact I might even be stupid enough to make that mistake twice, like soon. Telling that one person how you feel can make you look like a total idiot, but it also gives you the opportunity to find out the way they feel too, if it goes exactly the way you want it to go, you might as well buy a lottery ticket. Also, if you want more tips on how to do this, there is a tutorial by Chad Leron-Madsen on how to slide into DM’s in Mrs. Cogswell’s blog.

Tip 4: Say hello!
When high school is over, one of the main things that we also must understand is that high school may be over, but the friendships we cater last forever. Saying hello once in a while even when you don’t see your friends once in a while can make the difference of being an antisocial loser like me, or being a super duper fun person to be around, the kind of person you don’t ever want to say goodbye to. The most important thing we have to remember is that every tip before this one is not necessarily true, because it’s not about having to say goodbye to someone after highschool ends, it’s about understanding that saying goodbye is a choice, because whatever you choose to make last forever, I promise that it will, I really really do, as long as the others promise that too.