#3

The conundrum of high school.. this is tough. Maybe it's that we all say how much we don't care what anyone else thinks so we're trying to be independent and original, and we believe it too.. but really, we all care. When we go to the mall, into a shop, pick up something off the rack, we're secretly thinking what people would say or think if we wore it into school the next day. The way we act is based so much off of the media and others around us, yet we constantly state how original we are. Is that a paradox? Maybe it's a paradox for teenagers, I'm not sure it is for high school though. Maybe it's that we're taking all of these classes we know hardly anything about, just because we have to. We try so hard and do so much work for classes just to get a good grade, just to pass the class and move on. We're trying so hard because we all want to get out as soon as possible, but really high school is comfort for most. Because I bet anything that when we finally do get out, out into "the real world" that we'll be begging to come back. College is going to be a very rude awakening for most of us, but in the end, it has to be done. Is that the paradox of high school? IS ITTT?!