End.

Now that I’m looking back on the year, I feel my heart welling up with regret.  I feel I should have been more open about my feelings to the people that are meaningful to me.  I really am going to miss everyone I know.  This is my last day of high school, and I plan on spending it right.

I don’t want to leave my high school career to sit on the shelf and collect dust throughout the rest of my life.  I think its important that I don’t allow anything that I want to say be left unsaid.  To live a life with regrets is not one of my many aspirations.

I found this quote, it reflects the feelings that pass me by, as this blink of a day goes on.

“I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I’d be there with you now instead of here. Maybe… if I’d said, ‘I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,’ maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn’t do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I plan on saying a lot of I love you’s today.  Sorry, this post was a little rambly and off… but I think at the heart of this post is hope.  Hope that I can get past the petty regrets of my life so that I can look towards my future.  Thanks Ms. P, I learned a lot.  Good luck with everything,

Love, Dillan Owen Straabe.