So much can happen over the course of twelve months. Sometimes you don't realize it until a year later.

Your environment changes, friends change, your attitude changes, you move on from middle school to high school or underclassmen to upperclassmen or...in my case, high school to college.

This time last year, I was a senior in high school.

This time last year, my biggest worry was how I would do in my gymnastics meet or what test I was going to fail because I didn’t study for because "senioritis".

This time last year, I would’ve never imagined to be where I am right now. Right now I am a student at The Catholic University of America as a math major.

This time last year I was so convinced that I was going to The University of Southern California as an architect major or some other huge university.

This time last year I was in some pointless argument that ended friendships, stuck in Shawnee High School.

Right now, I have completely new friends and I am in a completely new city.

This time last year I was putting up a fight with the school because they wanted to move my parking spot even though I was the one who almost [x3] got hit by him.

Right now, he couldn’t be any more irrelevant to my life.

This time last year, I was so excited for senior trip and prom and graduation.

Right now, I am an alumni, sitting in my dorm staring at pictures from those trips and days wishing I could relive them all.

This time last year I was probably hanging out with my friends gossiping about all the “drama” in school that day.

Right now, my friends are spread out all across the coast and we’re lucky if we get to FaceTime here and there to catch up.

You get so stuck in the moment you’re living in and then you think back a year later and everything is so different, or in some cases nothing has changed at all.

This time last year things were so different and I’m grateful for the changes that have happened, but sometimes I wish I could just go back in time and just witness those moments all over again: all the stupid fights, the late night gossip, the “senior” moments, the tossing of the hats. Because now it’s all over and now it’s just a “this time last year” it’s just a “remember last year when…”.

Don't wish away the year, don't mean it when you say, "I can't wait to graduate and leave this town", because once you leave high school it's a brand new scene. Just remember to live in the moment of every second of every day of every year.