"Life has no limitaions except the ones you make."
-Les Brown
This weekend I went ona youth retreat with my youth group from church. I don't really understand how this happened to come into effect, but that is more due to the fact that it was suppose to be for junor high students and not senior high (the group we were taking not the actual retreat). I maybe wasn't as estatic as I should have been, however.
When your a junor in high school your never really that thrilled to be placed with a bunch of junor high students for three reasons:
1. Your older and normally more mature: Enough said!
2. In my case, your not thrilled to know that your roomies are a bunch of screaming preteen girls who are loud when they want to be, but too timid to stand out of the crowd.
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3. Your not normally on the same wavelength as the junior high students. (Especially because they always think they know everything.)
Now I could probably go on and on (sorry to whoever I just ticked off) but I'm not. Bottom line: When your a Junior you don't want to hang out with the middle schoolers, it's just uncool. And though I was very right on all three of my reasons to not want to be there (sorry guys) I was also very wrong at the same time. Again I have three great reasons:
1. The music was amazing
2. The speakers were amazing as well
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3. Junior high students, even though they have many faults, aren't as bad as I originally thought. Though they can be annoying their still people, and many are just the way they are because they are afraid to break out of their shells.
I have the perfect example of this: Everytime the band began to play for the group, I'd go to dance in front of the stage along with a bunch of other people about my age, but the middle schoolers were afraid to come up and dance. Alright, now for those who don't know me, I've pretty much hit that point in life where I don't care who sees, if I want to dance and sing I will dance and sing! If I embarass myself I embarass myself. Besides, who at that place wasn't dancing? I wasn't alone! Yet, I witnessed that even the ones that wanted to dance, were afraid because their friends weren't dancing.
Okay so maybe I have been a little harsh on the junior high, but now I understand them a little more. Its still odd because I thought I did because I went through that age not long ago in fact. I guess I still have a lot to learn because in today's society people, even young kids, are too afraid and want to be cool and want others to like them. Well If your a junior high student or you have a friend who is I have a word of advice: Just be yourself. If your not, then your going to find friends who like the false you and not the real you, in other words, their not your real friends. Save yourself some heartach and just live your life to it's fullest. Carpe Diem (ceise the day) as they say in latin.
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 Star_Freeheart · Mon Mar 01, 2010 @ 02:39am · 0 Comments |
