"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Le Guin only now have significant meaning in my life. After four years of my journey into enlightenment, the finish line finally made itself visible. I could hear it screaming my name, reaching, and pulling me into its majestic pool of bliss, inch by inch. Initially forced into the seemingly endless race that some refer to as high school, I had unavoidably assigned it as a part of my life. I'd been traveling on the last lap named senior year for what seemed like a mere second. This time frame proves to be inaccurate due to memories that, if video graphically recorded, could run for an eternity. What might an audience view if all my twelfth grade moments, the mental, emotional, and physical, were projected onto film? Most likely the expected pressures in a high school setting would be revealed, along with the usual presence of pointless curriculums. Perhaps an exposure of an extraordinary staff would also develop, sandwiched between the abnormality of nonexistent extracurricular activities and the unfortunate passing of edification. The spectators can only decide for themselves as how to judge my trip through this last lap, but is I, the screenwriter, director, producer and editor, who holds the true meaning of this past year that I wish to convey. The clear-as-crystal images will soon fade into clouds as time progresses, so for one last moment I will look back on the year alleged "time of [my] life."".
"Our life is frittered away by detail.simplify, simplify."" Unfortunately many of my peers took Thoreau's once profound thoughts and transformed them into a reason for the development of bad habits, thus causing an everlasting den of iniquity. I no longer needed Jerry Springer or HBO; if I wished to be corrupted or even if I did not, all I had to do was walk down the halls of my high school.