None of It Really Matters None of It Really Matters

My very first day of high school, I had decided I was going to wear a skirt accompanied by a pair of short fishnets that reached only to my knee. I was in the lunch line, standing amongst a small group of my friends and we happened to be in front of a group of senior guys.

My friends and I overheard them as they looked at our freshman class and proceeded to make gross comments about the girls, saying we all looked like whores and speculating about our body counts, if we even had any yet.

One of the senior guys amongst the group pointed at me, and proceeded to say “I mean, that one’s wearing fishnets, like a real slut.” The group of guys laughed, and everyone else in the line who heard the comment giggled quietly to themselves.

I never wore the fishnets again.

I went home that day, humiliated, and in tears about how I embarrassed myself earlier that day, not wanting to go to school the next day because everyone was gonna make fun of me.

That didn’t happen, in fact, no one remembered. Not the other people in the lunch line, not my friends, and not even the group of senior guys.

I cannot begin to tell you how much I wish I could go back in time and scream at my younger self for taking this situation so seriously, or any other situation in which I was humiliated over something extremely pathetic, only for it to be forgotten the next day.

The truth is, no one is as focused on your past mistakes, or any embarrassing moments that may have happened to you, as you are. It may feel like everyone’s going to make fun of you forever, but something embarrassing will happen to someone else the next day and the world will suddenly move on.

Over the course of my senior year, I’ve come to realize that there are so many bigger things in life than your current friendships, and crushes, and any embarrassing moments you may have had over the course of your high school career.

— Ariana González, Editor-in-Chief

At this point, everyone’s heard that high school is supposed to be the “best 4 years of your life.” I don’t entirely disagree; as a senior, there are many things that I’m gonna miss when I graduate and I can say that there are many things that I learned and memories I made that will stick with me for the rest of my life.

That being said, the importance of these 4 years out of about 80.2 years of a human life is so minuscule compared to the rest of your life.

Everyone grows up, everyone forgets, and there are so many more things awaiting you after you leave this building.