A nervous excitement buzzes in the air and the sweet smell of textbooks and white board marker wafts over you from a (very) early morning breeze...it must be the first day of the school! A new schedule, new teachers, and new friends await in the halls alongside creaky old lockers filled with long forgotten papers, pictures, and magnets.
Personally, as a Junior in high school, I kind of thought I must be over the whole "OHMYGOD It's the first day of school...this is CRAZY!" thing, however, my sister and I soon realized that I wasn't over it at all when low and behold at 8 o'clock last night I was in a mean frenzy to paint nails, and pick out dresses, and write everything and anything possibly important in my brand new powder blue planner.
Isn't it kind of silly that everyone gets a little nervous and giddy for the first day back when realistically you've grown up with all these people and none of them really care whether you look different then you did two months before...or at any other point in your life for that matter? The answer in my opinion, is yes. Maybe the reason people like to dress up for that first day back is not for everybody else, or for their crush, or their friends...maybe it's for themselves.
How many people looked at you in the same way you felt about yourself in the outfit you picked out? How many people thought, "Wow, that girl(boy) must be going places if their wearing that outfit on the first day of school?" Chances are it wasn't a lot, but it made you feel good. It made you feel new, and good, and capable of doing the impossible. Ok, you caught me, this is how I felt. But hopefully someone reading this blog feels the same way about the first day of school and I am not alone in the thought that looking good on the first day is to remind yourself,not others, that you can catch anything that year throws your way.
I'm also one of those obnoxious people that don't want to take high school as a joke, but instead want to love every second of it and try to put out of`mind that I'm not going to talk with anymore then 10(at the most) of these people after graduating. Today, my sister and I took a path down reminiscing road and pulled out old yearbooks. My sister, an alumni of my very own Bear River, looked inside and named the 10 people she still talked too, that she still laughed with, and made memories with and it got me thinking, that maybe that's what the social aspect of high school is about. Not who's on top and who's on the bottom or who's the class clown and who's the nerd, maybe it's about finding those 10 people(numbers may vary) and finding a few people to reminisce on the 'good old days' with. So you won't be alone in the future and more importantly you won't be alone in the past.
Meanwhile, on a less deeper thought, I had a pretty wonderful 'first' day(even if it was my 12th one) and even got all the classes I wanted; right alongside my pal Megan;due to the fact we have matching schedules(class for class)! I hope everyone has a wonderful 'first' day back or at least has a nice time reminiscing on previous 'first' day backs. Jewel.
