Leap Into Life
These days, blogging is extra complicated because my computer thinks Weebly should automatically translate to German. It's a hassle getting here.... but totally worth it.
Just like Middle School! Which by the way, I graduated from almost eleven days ago. And yes, I've spent the past eleven days trying to find a metaphor or some piece of inspiration to blog about.... Middle School is messy. It's yellow folders covered in doodles, planners filled to the brim with due dates, papers shoved to the back of a locker, and required books with messy annotations. Middle School is notes taken in the wrong notebook and flashcards scattered around. It's a bunch of awkward social situations and laughing about them afterwards. Middle School is a messy binder, a messy locker, a messy room, and a messy life. And that's okay. Because there's beauty in the messy: supportive and amazing friends and family, finding passions, a few great adventures, and memories. And while I leave Middle School and start High School, I will carry all these beauties with me and the lessons learned from Middle School. I think the truth is...Middle School is so much more than quadratic equations and semi colons and the Latin words you'll decline. It's more than the books you'll read (even though some of them will stay with you forever). It's learning to be surprised. It's learning that you can't control everything. You can't control your grade in algebra (even if you spent hours studying for the final exam), the universe's ability to put your improv tournament on the same day as your grade's flight to DC, and losing Mock Trial. But Middle School also teaches you something else: that you choose your reaction. You choose your reaction. Always. You don't choose your grade but you control studying next time. You don't choose what comes out of someone's mouth but you control how you deal with it. So wherever you are in life and whatever is next, remember what you learned in Middle School. And I'm not talking about a foreign language or algebra. Middle School gave me the mess, showed me the beauty, and taught that amidst our crazy lives filled with uncontrollable variables, we can always choose how we respond. *After that ending, all that's left to do it encourage you to subscribe. Help me beat the estimated 18 months that the average teen blogger's blog lasts!* **Now that I think of it, this blog post could (potentially) be inspired by one or both of the following quotes**
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