Really, the only thing I can brag about from my three years in high school is never, not once, eating lunch in the cafeteria. And being late everyday and never getting a tardy ticket.
BUT because graduation is kind of like a big deal or whatever (I guess) my best friend and I decided to honor this grand occasion by saying goodbye to the past, and hello to the future.
On the yellow balloons, obviously, we wrote our hellos. Hello to new beginnings, going to college, making new memories. Hello to finding out who we really are, and being independent. Hello to the real world.
Now, here comes my favorite part. I've been trying to think of a really nice poetic way to say this, but I pretty much fail every time, so bear with me here. After we had listed all of the things that we were saying goodbye to, we let the blue balloons go. We turned around and watched them as they were blown away with the wind. We then listed all of the new, and possibly scary, things that we were saying hello to. We then released those balloons into the sky.
The blue and yellow balloons went in COMPLETELY different directions. As we were watching the yellow ones blow away, I turned to see how far the blue ones were, and they were NO WHERE to be found. They were 100% gone, so I turned my sights back to the yellow balloons, back to the future. (hahaha back to the future)
This story is just asking for some sappy analogy or symbolism, isn't it?
As we were raising our blue balloons up to let them go, a tinge of sadness hit us both. But when we looked back to see where they had gone, we couldn't see them at all. But when I turned to look at the yellow balloons, you could see them clearly floating. Getting higher and higher as they went.
My high school career is over, which makes me want to jump for joy and go back to sophomore year at the same time.
I have to say goodbye to so many things, and most of those things I'm glad to get rid of. But some of those things I will miss terribly.
I have to say goodbye to my comfort zone. For the past 12 years, I've known what to expect. I have to say goodbye to being with my best friend every minute. It's really going to stink to be an hour and a half away from my one and only. Especially because we've seen each other practically every day for the past 3 years.
I have to say goodbye to living with my mommy, and having all of my family so close around me. I've lived in the same dang house all my life, so yeah, this is kind of a HUGE change.
But with all of those things that I have to say goodbye to, I get to say hello to so many more new exciting things. Which is absolutely terrifying, but I'm so excited. I'm still not really sure how I feel about this whole graduating thing, but I'm about to do it.
"Don't look back the way is long... 'Cause if you never leave home, never let go, you'll never make it to the great unknown" -- Needtobreathe (love love love them)
I'm about to go chasing those bright yellow balloons, and I can't wait to see what the future has in store for me.
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