Everyone looks back on their high school years as a time they either dreaded or would love to go back to. I can happily say that it was a time I neither dreaded nor would want to go back to, simply because the person I became after the fact was all I ever wanted for myself. High school had its dreadful moments, but it also had its beauties that taught me so many things that I, quite frankly, live by today.

One of the things that high school taught me was that the people who are meant to be in your life, the friends who are true and deserve your time and love, will come back to you in the end. If anything, it taught me that timing is everything. Usually people tend to make that reference when it comes to relationships and love, but I found that it is the same when it comes to friendships too. Through out the years, the immaturity level throughout teenagers will decrease in the years from freshman to senior. The experience that I had consisted of a manipulative person taking advantage of the innocent minds of my friends and turning them against not only me, but eventually against each other one by one. High school taught me that there are good and bad people in this world. The bad ones will truly get what is coming to them. The bad people in the world will dig their own grave as their negativity drags them down to where they belong. The person successfully manipulated the people that I used to call friends, and for them there was nothing I could do because the kind of person that manipulating person was wasn't something I could show them, but could only let them realize in their own time. Then, four years later, in our senior year of high school, those friends came back because they realized just what kind of person they had spent the past few years with. My old friendships were rekindled, and my old ones were coming to an end. When my friends had left me my senior year, I quickly made new friends with an amazing group of people, the same people I spent every day with for the four years I was disconnected with the people who were off being manipulated. Those people opened my eyes to the possibilities that life holds and all the beauties that it holds. They taught me to never think small in the relentlessly painful ways, and the immaculate pleasurable ones.

High school taught me what humanity has to offer to an individual. Life is not worth living if you are living alone. High school taught me that not only are you never alone, but the right people who will never leave you alone in any circumstance will come to you at the right time. High school taught me that patience is a beautiful thing when you can sit back and watch the beauties of life unfold in front of you. High school was one of the things that taught me what the right kind of person looks like in society. In the end, high school is where you not begin growing as the person that you are, but begin to understand the individual that you are and where you stand in this life.