Lemonade

Life hands you lemons. You're friend leaves for college. You can't find a job. Summer is ending. You have no plans. You stare at those lemons in you're hand wondering why life is being so mean to you.

Then from out of the shadows, life jumps in front of you with a swirl of confetti and glitter holding a sign that says, "Just kidding!" and it starts raining lemonade. You dance around, which is way cooler than dancing in the rain because the rain is cold and dark but lemonade rain is bright and sunny and warm (but not like pee. I thought I'd clarify...). Everything is good and while you are slightly annoyed by the joke, it can't ruin the fun you're having.

After all life isn't perfect. It makes mistakes and like the terrible friend that it is, sometimes it forgets to check up on you. It can leave you feeling pretty stressed and angry, but it pays you back with pure awesome. And by pure awesome, I mean senior out!

Senior out is the most popular class on the schedule of my classmates, but in reality it isn't a class at all. Senior out is the absence of a class. No teacher, no learning, no school. My fellow seniors and I get to go home an hour and a half earlier than the underclassmen. And what do we do with this lovely time?

Whatever the hell we want!!!!!

Go to the mall, or to see a movie when the theater is practically deserted. Take a nap, read a book, go to a job interview. The possibilities seem endless in that hour and a half. It's when the world is ours and we take advantage of it.

Even without senior out I'd have to say that life is good. Friends are easy to keep in touch with when you have technology, the more jobs you apply for the more likely one of them will hire you (which they did), summer ended but the sun's still here, and plans never go they way you plan anyways.