So Long, NPHS!

Kassy Mendez, Staff Writer

The year is coming to a close and everything is terrifying and exciting at the same time.  After six years of walking through the same halls and seeing all the same faces with a few changing each year, you get used to it.  It becomes the norm for you and it turns into a safety net.  You can always be sure you’ll see Mrs. Welte in the hall or that the Media Center will always be the coolest room in the summer.  You can always depend on the Language Arts rooms to be the hottest on a humid day and the water fountain by the Cafeteria to be the most refreshing and least disgusting. So how can it be so easy to let that go and move away from home towards something so much bigger with new faces and new classrooms with new teachers and new water fountains?

It just is.  Life moves forward no matter how hard you try to pull it back.  Nobody can cling to the past, just look at what that did to Gatsby.  One friend of mine told me that her first two weeks at college, she cried herself to sleep because he missed home so much.  But she sucked it up and started meeting new people and getting used to calling her school her home and everything was better for her and she was happy to be a part of a new community.  All change is scary, but how can you ever overcome your fear if you don’t even try?  I’m terrified to be part of Loyola University Maryland 2019 and I’m terrified that my best friend will be 500 miles away from me in South Carolina.  I’m terrified that my mom won’t be cooking my meals and my brother won’t be there to make me laugh.  I’m terrified that my boyfriend will stop being my boyfriend and that my friends will stop being my friends.  I’m so excited to be a part of Loyola University Maryland.  I’m excited to make new friends and find new places to go.  I’m excited to learn new things and experience something different.  And I’m excited to prove myself wrong and show how strong the bonds I’ve created in New Providence are and how my best friend will always be my best friend.  I’m excited for this new chapter of my life.  So Long NPHS.  It’s been something.