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If there’s just one thing I’ve learned from having to write Mr. Lawrence’s one-page essays, it’s that it takes a lot of effort to sum a complex concept up into a short space. The results have the potential to be beautifully simple, though, and that is always what I strive for. Thus, I present to you my opinion of 2007, and my expectation for 2008, in one (longish) paragraph each.

I’m not sure if it’s the same for other people, but in my recollection, I hit the ground sprinting in 2007— what a work load there was! And what intense confusion: relationships were a mess in the beginning, both with friends and with more, but they ironed out eventually. There wasn’t much coasting until about mid-year, and I don’t feel like I really had adequate time to appreciate some of the awesome things that did happen during the year. I, and many of my fellow classmates, were accepted into college. Man, what a scary thought that is. Relationships rose, and fell, and rose, and didn’t fall even though we wish they might have. 2007 was the year of drawing closer: starting to truly know some of the people we’re around every day but never really gave a second glance. That senior retreat was a riot, I wish I could go back. Man, what a year it has been.

Conversely, 2008 is going to be the year of learning to let go, one of the hardest things in the world. I have problems letting go— too bad I’m going to have to do so much of it. I need to let go of the school I love, I’m going to college. Let go of living at home, with your parents who do more than they probably should for you. Let go of a comfortable pseudo-life for one in the real world. Let go of the ones we love, for our own good or theirs, even if it’s just so they can fall on their ass and realize what life really is. Let go of the Bad Stuff. Welcome the new Good… and definitely appreciate the old Good more than I have. I’m gonna’ miss you guys. I really, really am. This year’s going to be exciting, but it isn’t going to be an easy one. Let’s all try to keep our heads on straight, shall we?

Happy New Year, friends.

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