If I had a dime for every time I heard, "High school is the best 4 years of your life." I would be a millionaire. I don't enjoy high school, I spend most of my time feeling like I could do more with my life. I could be out working, earning a living -getting a start on "life". I could be out fighting in Iraq, or helping children in Africa. I could be out fighting for a cause and making something of myself. But, I can't because I spend the better part of my days in a brick-walled penitentiary doing menial tasks pretending to learn. Let me go to college so I can start my life. I'm sixteen years old, I'm in my youth, full of passion and bursting with ideas.
Other than I feel like I could be doing more with my life than being in school, I don't feel like students are treated equally. Yes, we are younger and yes, we have not been to college yet, but that doesn't mean that our ideas should be ignored. I would like some equality in the public school system. No one likes to be ignored or looked down upon.
Spending all my time looking at the flaws with my high school experience and not enjoying it. What if these are the best four years of my life and I'm too busy being negative to realize it?

September 30, 2010

Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to strangle you in spite of what you’d like.
And don’t be a rascal, don’t be a laughing dog in spite of odds .
All I’m deciphering from the spirits in the light within.

First Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble and it was pretty fun. I got to lead the Name Game which really made my night.
"Hi, my name is Heatherlyn, I go to Scott High School, and... I'm an alcoholic..." -small chuckles.. then more people laugh- "No, not really. Let's try this again... My name is Heatherlyn and I have a baby...." -dead silence, people looking at me in awe- "...turtle at home named Godzilla!" -burst of laughter-

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

"We're supposed to lose the ones that we love. How else would be know how important they are to us?"

September 3, 2010

I'm an idiot. Oh well, tonight I'm going to a party so maybe I can get my mind off things.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

"You do your thing and I do my thing. You are you and I am I. And, if, in the end, we end up together, it's beautiful." Boy Meets World hit it right on the dot.