LaLa Advice: Editorial

You can call me LaLa. I’m a senior at Geyserville High School. I live in Santa Rosa and the Sonoma County Transit has more money from me than anyone else. I love to play sports but I messed up academically so playing is beyond my reach. I love to go to concerts and parties and such. I don’t like to be still in life... or should I say I couldn’t be still? Anyway, this is my column for the school paper, willingly sharing my thoughts, feelings, and advice for anyone who wants to take a gander. Hope you are patient with me... I am working to be better at explaining what is going on in my mind.

 

Everyone hits a wall in life. Everyone’s beliefs flail at some point, leaving him or her feeling lost momentarily. I’ve hit that wall. I am among the lost. So many things are going on: My mother finally being more than a phone call in my life again, my very best friend moving away [I’m happy she has a place, but I miss her], trying to graduate with my friends while living over an hour bus ride away, making up credits, preparing for college [well SRJC along with most Geyserville graduates], and moving on to be a independent- working part of society. Not to mention being a teenage girl with her heart on her sleeve. I’m sure that a lot of other people can relate but it’s hard to not feel alone with all this on my shoulders.

 

Recently I have decided to make the conscience decision to be happy. The world is a beautiful place once you “wake” from the routine of being young and dependent on almost everyone, though there is nothing wrong with being dependent, we are young, let it last. Anyways… I allow myself to be optimistic, searching out a brighter side.

 

Just the other day I was over at my friends house reading a Calvin and Hobbes comic. Calvin was floating miles above the earth, holding only a balloon; it read, “Things are never so bad that they can't get worse.” Personally, this affected me way more than I would assume it should have. With everything I touch catching fire, this was highly appropriate for this stage of my evolution. Though it sounds harsh, it can also be reversed; what’s to say that things can never be so good that it can’t get better???