Chasing Gavin
Wistfulness can only bring us elsewhere
I.
WISTFULNESS can only bring us elsewhere.
Who could ever forget the time when we first picked up that backpack and strolled into the doors of high school life? Who could ever forget that struggle to belong, to adapt, to cope with the demands of the inevitable event that is change? We had our moments of anguish as struggled with texts, ideas and concepts and trying to see things in a new perspective. After all, everybody has gone through this: we were freshmen too.
Despite the fear there is from facing uncertainty, we gambled, took the step and went through the many challenges. We unfolded our wings and took flight, like the Icarus of our time.
In the beginning, it was difficult. We worked, we leapt, we stumbled, we cried, we learned-yet we struggled to get up again...and lived.
II.
IN THE END, we find ourselves elsewhere.
We are faced with the unavoidable question which all of us perhaps, not only students, try every way available to avoid: Have I learned anything?
4 years of pressure to excel, 40 months of pure pain and hard work, 10 subjects and evenings of group study, over 500 pages of one whole pads, 3 reams of bond paper. One dream. 280 proud high school grads; 7 sections; over 70 long tests, 150 quizzes, 36 days of final exams; countless hours of lectures, meetings and rehearsals. One dream. 'No grades below 75!'; 'Silence-single file only!'; endless tears, conversations and laughter. One dream. Diversity, Force, Commitment, Degrees of Insanity, a diploma. One dream-fulfilled.
