When you live in a place your whole life, you begin to
hate it.
But it's like secretly, you love it here.
Because it's your home.
I've lived in this town and house my whole life.
Over eighteen and a half years I have lived here.
I've gone to school with practically the same people my whole
life.
And it's so hard to believe that it's all done.
It's hard to fathom that I won't see many of the people I
saw everyday at school anymore.
I met some great people and I met some terrible people.
But either way, I am so thankful for it.
There is no other place I could imagine growing up in.
We've had our up and God knows we've had our downs.
But we have become a family in all this time.
We look at each other in the hallways and we remember each others
faces.
We see people we've known for years and say "I can't
believe we made it to this day."
We won't hear that bell ring anymore.
We won't sit down at lunch and eat together anymore.
We won't have fights over stupid things anymore.
We won't be able to small talk in the halls anymore going to
our next class.
None of that will be possible anymore.
People always say I hated it here because I always had an
attitude.
Heck, in class yesterday, when the teacher asked where I wanted
to be in ten years, I straight out said, "Not
here."
So, yes, they were right.
But I look back now and I say to myself, it wasn't actually
half bad.
I'm going to miss everyone around me.
All the students and the teachers.
I'm going to miss my dean especially.
She has stuck with me through thick and thin.
Even up until the last day of school, I believe.
I was a pain in her a.ss but she was one of the only ones who
truly understood me.
There was a few others and I wish I could thank every single one
of them.
I want to thank my mother especially.
She's always been there for me and stood up for me when no
one else would.
She's my rock and I'm going to be lost without her.
I remember walking in on that first day of school.
From day one, I can tell you I've been dying to get out.
I remember walking out and driving out of that parking lot on the
last day.
From day one to the last day, my feelings changed.
And now I can't believe where all the time went.
Now that day has come and it's like, I wish I could could
back to day one and do it all over again.
It's funny how time flies so fast when you don't want it
to.
You just want to stop the world and get off for a minute or two
to get your head straight again.
I never thought this day would come but here I am.
I thought I would have cracked by noe.
But I'm so glad and thankful that I've had so many
amazing people to keep me on track.
One day you're fourteen, wishing to be free.
But the next day you're eighteen, wishing you were fourteen
again.
I can't believe it's over.
But I've got a whole life to begin.
Class of 2013, Chelmsford High School, thank you.
Thank you for being the best class I could ever ask for.