{"id":43601,"date":"2016-04-22T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=43601"},"modified":"2016-04-23T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T17:11:16","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=43601","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Searcy (LP)\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0The last days of my high school career are fast approaching and I can only imagine how I&#8217;ll be feeling when I step out of Harrison Central grounds for the very last time. Throughout these three years, I have felt a lot of urgency about graduating high school. I didn&#8217;t think that the time to graduate would come soon enough. Now, that time is finally nearing. I cannot believe that it has come this fast. I remember my first days<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43602\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43602 \" src=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/seniors-banner-400x129.jpg\" alt=\"seniors-banner\" width=\"397\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/seniors-banner-400x129.jpg 400w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/seniors-banner-171x55.jpg 171w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/seniors-banner.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors lol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>of high school. I was just dying to experience all the new and exciting things that awaited me. From sports to girls to all the partying, I just wanted to know what everything was like. <br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that I&#8217;ve done all those things and many more, I am about to embark on a new adventure that will take me too many more new experiences. Some say that &#8220;high school was the best time of my life&#8221;, just like others say that high school was the worst time in their lives. To be honest, I am not sure which category I fall into. I&#8217;ve had plenty of good times, as well as just as many bad times, in high school. <\/span><br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only thing I can say is that I learned. And the most important thing is that, not just that I learned through the books, but I learned about life and the road ahead of me.From being an inexperienced sophomore to a somewhat mature senior, things have really changed for me. I started high school as a brash and cocky athlete, dying to conquer the world, which I did not know much about. I will leave high school as a world-weary senior, knowing that there are many dangers to encounter in the real world. I will take what I learned from the many great teachers I have met in \u00a0highschool and apply it in college. I will use the tools that have been given to me by the ones who care. I am a sharper individual than I once was, and I have many influential teachers to thank for that. These last few days will be fun, but sad in a way.<\/span><br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The campus that has become my home will be a bittersweet memory, and nothing more. I hope to stay in contact with the people who were in these four long years of my life. I say long, but when I think about it, it feels like I was entering as a confused freshman just yesterday. \u00a0Realistically, I do not know what the world out there holds for me. All I can do is enter it with a guarded optimism and hope for the best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searcy (LP)\u00a0\u00a0The last days of my high school career are fast approaching and I can only imagine how I&#8217;ll be feeling when I step out of Harrison Central grounds for the very last time. Throughout these three years, I have felt a lot of urgency about graduating high school. 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