Hi. Remember me? I remember all of you, and I miss you all dearly.

Do you remember this time last year when we were getting ready to graduate, celebrating all of our lasts, laughing and crying through the bittersweet moments from Senior Skip Days, Cyprus, our last banquet, our last musical, all the way to graduation? Because I sure do. It’s hard not to reminisce and look back at all the good times we had back then and miss it a heck of a lot. I won’t lie to you all, I’ve looked back at pictures countless amounts of times the past few weeks and wished to go back to those exact moments just to relive them all over again.

I miss you guys.

I miss class parties and bonfires at the end of the year where we burn all of our homework and make s’mores. I miss class hangouts. When Mr. Myers told us that the year was going to pass us by so quickly that we didn’t even notice it, I didn’t believe him. Over and over he told us to live in these moments, because they weren’t going to come back. And I don’t have any regrets, I did exactly that, I just can’t really believe that we aren’t ever going to be together like that again. That although we may come back to Hungary to see on another, it won’t be the same. The dynamic won’t be the same because of the time we’ve spent apart and time does a number on all of us. We’ve all changed and matured and grown in so many different ways, and we’ve had different experiences with different people. And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it just means that we’re not the same people we were our senior year. We’re not the same class. I may miss that, but I’m so proud of each and every one of us and all that we’ve accomplished in the past year since we graduated.

I wish you all the best, and all of the happiness in the world, and I can’t wait to see some of you this summer! To the seniors graduating this year, to the class of 2017, I wish you all the best and I urge you to take hold of every ‘last’ that you go through together. This is such a fun, stressful, and monumental year for you guys to go through and it moves super quickly. I know there isn’t much time left for you guys to spend together so this is your reminder this time is precious. Use it wisely. Words are also precious, so leave your friends with positive ones that they can remember fondly. The golden rule is always a good closer, so I’ll leave that here: treat others as you would want to be treated friends.