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"We're spontaneous?"
Spontaneity is a trait most teenagers hail as an essential virtue. Being up for anything, initiating random parties, jumping at the chance to drive three hours to Orlando in the middle of September - it's all part of high-school-dom, and rightly so. When else in our lives can we escape to a concert for a band we don't even know on a Wednesday night with all of our friends?
APs and IBs and SATs and ACTs and prep classes and tutoring sessions and band practices and club meetings and sports games and the list goes on and on - the vast majority of our high school lives are packaged into little, bite-sized pieces. Our time is allotted and only if we're lucky do we give ourselves an hour section to spend socializing, or just ignoring the constant stress every once in awhile.
And sometimes... yes, spontaneity can come back and bite you. Like when, for example, those plans we so carelessly arrange but still care so much about, go wrong. Have you ever shown up at a friend's house to surprise them, only to realize they aren't home once you're already there? And then done it again? And again? (Maybe that's just me, but you get the point.)
But really, even if our 'adventures' somehow go awry, we're entitled to a night or two of impulsiveness. So one day, take a trip to Disney World for no good reason. (Yes, okay, if you do it, it'll probably end up being during a holiday break, but it still counts.) And when you arrive back home and dive back into that endless stack of papers and review sheets and textbooks, you'll have more ridiculous stories to laugh about during lunch and while you're avoiding prepping for that big calc test looming over your head. Not to be cliché, but we're only in high school once, and as my AP Psych teacher always says, this is our peak!
APs and IBs and SATs and ACTs and prep classes and tutoring sessions and band practices and club meetings and sports games and the list goes on and on - the vast majority of our high school lives are packaged into little, bite-sized pieces. Our time is allotted and only if we're lucky do we give ourselves an hour section to spend socializing, or just ignoring the constant stress every once in awhile.
And sometimes... yes, spontaneity can come back and bite you. Like when, for example, those plans we so carelessly arrange but still care so much about, go wrong. Have you ever shown up at a friend's house to surprise them, only to realize they aren't home once you're already there? And then done it again? And again? (Maybe that's just me, but you get the point.)
But really, even if our 'adventures' somehow go awry, we're entitled to a night or two of impulsiveness. So one day, take a trip to Disney World for no good reason. (Yes, okay, if you do it, it'll probably end up being during a holiday break, but it still counts.) And when you arrive back home and dive back into that endless stack of papers and review sheets and textbooks, you'll have more ridiculous stories to laugh about during lunch and while you're avoiding prepping for that big calc test looming over your head. Not to be cliché, but we're only in high school once, and as my AP Psych teacher always says, this is our peak!
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