Today and Tomorrow

This week was the last week of school. This isn't going to be one of those usual posts talking about how much I'm going to miss everyone, or how hard it was to say goodbye (We'll see each other next year; I was glad to leave.), but rather what I learned this week. Within the past five or six days, I managed to make something of what I was given.

On Monday, everyone was tired (because it's Monday), including me. I just wanted to go back home, and go to sleep. So as my friend and I were walking to French, I was complaining about being tired, and asked (rhetorically), "What's even the POINT of this last week of school?" She responded with a simple answer, that made a lot of sense. "If this week wasn't the last week of school, then last week would've been. It would've had to happen eventually."

I started thinking about what she said, and she was right. Unless we went to school year-round for the rest of our lives, there would always be a "last week of school". So I decided to suck up being tired, and enjoy it. It would be my last five days of being a seventh grader. Maybe that's a good thing. My last five days of Algebra, my last five days of science, or my last five days getting up at 6:45 in the morning. But there were also some bad things. My last week of Texas History, my last week of reading good books in English, my last week of Theatre. It's true that with every good thing, there's a downside. But with every bad thing, there's an upside also. The important thing is to not pay attention to the bad things, and focus on the good, because you don't know how much longer you'll have any of it.

It's also that way with people. I have some people in my life that I may say I hate, or do have some things about them that I hate, but I would find it incredibly hard if some day, they weren't there. I know you have someone like that in your life, I would be astounded if you didn't. For example, someone in my French class. She drives me insane how annoying, fake, and absolutely conceited she is. But on those days that she's absent, I'm happy that she's not there to pester me, but I'm also left stranded. When we partner up with people in first period, there's no one for me to be with, because she's gone. I'm with strangers. And although I may not have my food stolen at lunch, or whatever, I also don't have anyone to be with during Science. There's an upside an a downside to everything and everyone. You just have to look past the problems and difficulties, and pay attention to how you really benefit.

You can be annoyed with a person and ignore them, and be incredibly hurt by them, but they're still one of your best friends. That happened last night. I was left out, excluded, however you want to say it, and they didn't make any effort to include me, so I was incredibly mad. I still am, but I learned that she also helps me. Maybe she won't ever really realize what she's doing, no matter how many times I tell her. I will always be annoyed. I will always be upset. But the truth is that if she was a good friend, she would try to understand. Maybe she's not. But maybe she is. I don't know right now, but she hasn't much let me down before, so I have to trust that she is. The most I can do is to make the possible best of what she's giving me, and try to accept the worst.

I hope maybe you could relate to one of the three scenarios that I put out. I have more, but not enough time. I also hope that maybe it taught you something. If it did, I hope that it was to make the best of what you have today, for it may not be there tomorrow.