And we'll never be that young again...
Inspired by Visko's "we were merely freshmen" post, I realized I'd been thinking this, but never put it down anywhere.
I still can't quite believe that it's 2006. It hit me on New Years Eve, when we counted down to midnight and ran outside and everyone ran around, but I kind of stayed still because I didn't want to fall on the ice, as I have had far too many nasty experiences falling on ice, and I realized...a year from now, I'll have a semester of college under my belt. We all will. And we'll never be together this way again, even if we keep in touch, it won't be like this - our lunch table, cast parties and dance after-parties, nights backstage, sitting in the auxiliary gym before a show, visiting lockers, comparing test scores and sharing study guides.
Because when we were freshmen, high school seemed like it would go on forever, didn't it? College was far-away, cloudy, an indefinite thing that would happen someday but we weren't sure how to get there or when it'd happen, because we rarely looked farther ahead than lunchtime or Friday or Christmas vacation. High school was where we were stuck, and we braced ourselves to be there a long time, and now that it's soon time to leave, I've found that I've gotten pretty comfortable. We all say we hate it, I know, but where would we be without it? And once it's over, then what happens?
I felt safe so long as it was 2005, because there was still that New Years Eve standing between me and The Future, because 2006 was something that I wrote on forms and saw on t-shirts and chanted at football games. But 2006 is now. The days are just going to go faster and faster and nothing is going to stop June from coming.
Food for thought. Anyway.
I still can't quite believe that it's 2006. It hit me on New Years Eve, when we counted down to midnight and ran outside and everyone ran around, but I kind of stayed still because I didn't want to fall on the ice, as I have had far too many nasty experiences falling on ice, and I realized...a year from now, I'll have a semester of college under my belt. We all will. And we'll never be together this way again, even if we keep in touch, it won't be like this - our lunch table, cast parties and dance after-parties, nights backstage, sitting in the auxiliary gym before a show, visiting lockers, comparing test scores and sharing study guides.
Because when we were freshmen, high school seemed like it would go on forever, didn't it? College was far-away, cloudy, an indefinite thing that would happen someday but we weren't sure how to get there or when it'd happen, because we rarely looked farther ahead than lunchtime or Friday or Christmas vacation. High school was where we were stuck, and we braced ourselves to be there a long time, and now that it's soon time to leave, I've found that I've gotten pretty comfortable. We all say we hate it, I know, but where would we be without it? And once it's over, then what happens?
I felt safe so long as it was 2005, because there was still that New Years Eve standing between me and The Future, because 2006 was something that I wrote on forms and saw on t-shirts and chanted at football games. But 2006 is now. The days are just going to go faster and faster and nothing is going to stop June from coming.
Food for thought. Anyway.