This year's senior student council is a group of buffoons. What could honestly possess them to nominate SEVEN country music songs out of eleven total for the senior song? There isn't any diversity in that. It just so happens that the student council is one tiny sliver of the school, and they get all the say. Only they have the power to elect Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts(twice), Natasha Beddingfield, Kenny Chesney, and 2 others. The entire presentation today was quite disheartening in the sense that I'm going to have to try to enjoy myself while the last moment of high school is spent with Kenny Chesney.
If you ignore the fact that the music will be lame, prom will likely be fun. I've heard from people to "not believe the hype," and I'm not. Dances are just dances, that phobia has long since passed. As long as i'm with the people that I love I don't think anything else will matter.
Dances always used to make me so nervous. I can remember back to freshman year homecoming, where the group of guys I went with just kinda stood around in the back and were too afraid to let ourselves go. Deep down I wanted to break free and embrace the fun all around me, but I needed time.
I now realize that time is the most valuable resource, bar nothing. It's running really short, and as of late i've been trying to catch up for those years that i've wasted. I look for happiness and beauty everywhere I turn, for I know that this environment is familiar. Next year I'm not going to have the luxury of familiarity, so I have to soak up every ounce of sunshine available. Although, in a way, next year won't be so different from now. The friends that I care about the most are almost all going to Allendale, so in a way our lives are being transplanted to a different location.
On that note, I can't decide which is better. Embracing normalcy and living life comfortably, or branching out and sacrificing everything in order to grow more as a person. Even if I had the right answer, the advantages of the other path not chosen are enticing. How do you tell when one phase in your life is ending? When is it right to move on? At what point do you stop going with the flow and start living for yourself? These questions are all goals for myself, and I want them answered as soon as possible.
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You are a really gifted writer Tom. I absolutely agree with your first paragraph. I can't even believe that the student counsil chose those songs. I know that it's difficult to represent 300ish kids, but there wasn't any diversity in the songs. They were just thinking of themselves. Now I'm not talking about all members of student council, cos I know not all of them would be that selfish. It seems like they picked country, and then a few other terrible songs so that we would be forced to pick the less horrible songs.
I always liked school dances. I love just letting go, and going wild!
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