Misconception of a High Schooler: GREATEST INVENTION

I was fighting my way to the gym lobby yesterday afternoon when I came to the conclusion that teenagers are probably the weirdest inventions ever to walk the earth. It's a funny conclusion, seeing as I technically am still considered a "teenager." So maybe I'll redirect my conclusion to specifially high schoolers . Among them being the weirdest inventions- I'd have to also say they're the most awkward, unapproachable, and sometimes very smelly of all the other types of creatures that dance and sing and pass about love.

For one split second I was alone among the chaos and confusion that is Friday afternoon at 2:05- the clammer and excitement that erupts and drenches the halls and the tired, worn out faculty could almost be described as contagious. And for that split second I was taken back to how lonely, scared and unsure it felt to be a high schooler. To be 13 and entering a secondary school, or to be 14 and have your crush of two years spit gum in hair... to be 15 and have your first boyfriend break up with you... to be 16 and watch your parents marriage fall apart and feel numb as 17 enrolls you into your 3rd high school in 3 years- and all you can think about is how everything will change when you turn 18.

For the split second that the chaos of 2:05 overtook me I remembered how nothing changed the day I turned 18. And with that thought, I resurfaced to the smiling, excited and ever brave faces of the kids who I now call home. As they rushed through the crowds to grab me, smiling and calling my name it became so evident that high schoolers are the greatest, most daring and courageous inventions to ever walk the earth. And the day that changed everything, wasn't what I had ever that it would be. It was  the day Selma called me in for an interview, it was the day I boarded the charter bus headed for Lake Champion, it was then that everything changed.

I am so humbled, so grateful and ever confused as to why God thought it up that I'd get to live such a quirky adventure and be touched, inspired and loved by the greatest inventions that ever walked the earth.