Notes Put to Rest

The curtain was closed on my days of being a nun and a trio. Frankly, I’m going to miss it. Probably more than I should. I still have another year of high school, and that means I still have another year of goofing off, having very little significant responsibility, and making wonderful high school memories. I really hope I can look back on memories I make in the future as fondly as I will look onto the ones I have made in the past few months.

As a freshman, I was too good for anything school related. I had an arrogant form of “senioritis” (I use that for lack of a better term), and I may have been one of the most obnoxious freshmen in the whole school. I tried out for the school musical, but again, I was too good for it, so I didn’t go to dancing rehearsals to try and get a part. That may have been one of the biggest mistakes of my life, and if the memories I missed out on because of my arrogance were as amazing as the ones I experienced in The Sound of Music, I’m just stupid for missing it.

The thing about theater kids is, they don’t care. They don’t care what you look like, how you feel, what kind of people you like, what color skin you have, or what your sexual orientation is. Most of them just love the person you are, and they hate when you’re fake. I think they have a sixth sense for stuff like that. It may just be me, but it’s just like a big giant family. When I went to auditions I was a little freaked out because the people I knew there were only acquaintances. I honestly did not have any friends. For some reason I went to all of the auditions I needed to go to (even though I didn’t really want to), got a part, and started to go to rehearsals. The first few were kind of rocky, I was a little lonely, but since I can basically keep up a conversation with a rock I was all right. After a while, though, I wanted to stay after school with all of my friends more than I wanted to go home and eat dinner. That’s a big deal, because I love my food.

I’m a junior this year, and I know in sports and things when you try out for a team and make it as a junior or sometimes even a sophomore, you just don’t mesh. I didn’t feel that way with these kids. I really think if I was coming to our high school for the first time and got involved in the theater, I would feel okay with leaving my old school.

It was hard coming home after school today. Actually, it wasn’t hard, it was weird. Staying after school until sometimes 9:30 at night starts to become normal, and breaking that normal today was a bit strange. I would like to thank every single one of the cast, crew, and directors for making mine and I’m sure a lot of other people’s school years. Thank you for teaching me life lessons that I will carry with me, making memories with me, and loving me. I can’t wait until next year to have a blast with all of you again. Seniors, you were awesome. You will all move on to bigger and better things, because that’s what you were made to do. Don’t forget about all of us still stuck in high school. Make sure you come visit.

So, the song has been sung. Thank you to everyone who sang in harmony with me. I look forward to doing it again in the future.