Too Fast
School started in hurry, Summer felt like it was just a long weekend, and as I got to school on my first day of my Junior year, I was shocked to say the least. Freshman galore. Yes, I know I was one of them once, but I can't help feel that they are in the wrong place. Not because I've never seen them on campus and miss my graduates, but because the better part of class of 2015 are less that 5 foot.
I had a freshman that I didn't see me, walk head first into my stomach today. I almost screamed and called for the Wicked Witch of the West to come and kill this munchkin that dares walk into an obviously superior Junior! I just see the freshman class each year getting smaller and smaller, shorter and shorter. But then as I was complaining to my Algebra teacher from last year about the invasions of delusional fifth graders that simply can't find their way to elementary school, she told me that the kids coming in are not smaller than normal.
This got me to thinking, we were once that small, but I'm sure not in our freshman year, at most sixth grade. But no, my teacher corrected me once again. We were that small in our first year of high school. I couldn't believe it. I reiterated my doubts to her, and she came right back with the growing argument.
HA! Don't make me laugh. I couldn't possibly have grown that much in a mere two years! But alas, it seems my suspicions of invading munchkins were false. We're really growing up, and fast too. I makes me feel old. But now as I think about where I am in my life, I can see that we are growing. I honestly can remember elementary school like it was yesterday. Now everything feels like life is just hurtling towards us and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Time is ticking faster than I can ever recall it ticking. I'm a Junior in high school. I'm 16. I have to shave every other day. And all I'm doing is getting older.
I had a freshman that I didn't see me, walk head first into my stomach today. I almost screamed and called for the Wicked Witch of the West to come and kill this munchkin that dares walk into an obviously superior Junior! I just see the freshman class each year getting smaller and smaller, shorter and shorter. But then as I was complaining to my Algebra teacher from last year about the invasions of delusional fifth graders that simply can't find their way to elementary school, she told me that the kids coming in are not smaller than normal.
This got me to thinking, we were once that small, but I'm sure not in our freshman year, at most sixth grade. But no, my teacher corrected me once again. We were that small in our first year of high school. I couldn't believe it. I reiterated my doubts to her, and she came right back with the growing argument.
HA! Don't make me laugh. I couldn't possibly have grown that much in a mere two years! But alas, it seems my suspicions of invading munchkins were false. We're really growing up, and fast too. I makes me feel old. But now as I think about where I am in my life, I can see that we are growing. I honestly can remember elementary school like it was yesterday. Now everything feels like life is just hurtling towards us and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Time is ticking faster than I can ever recall it ticking. I'm a Junior in high school. I'm 16. I have to shave every other day. And all I'm doing is getting older.
posted by Tyler Reilly at
7:57 PM
2 Comments:
This is great! Your writing is getting better! If you want me to give you some real tough feedback, send me your email -- ok? Otherwise, it is witty, funny and cute. I love how you added the humor of shaving at the end!
Yes please!! Some good feedback would be really helpful. My email is tytyjohn8@gmail.com
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