Weekly Conclusions

At the beginning of the year, almost every teacher and adult in my life told me that my senior year would go by fast. I nodded my head and rolled my eyes, thinking it can’t be that fast. Well, they were right. And after all the skip days and waking up at 6.30 am just to show up half asleep to first hour, it’s one of my last few days in high school.  And I wish I could say it is anything but bittersweet.  I’m so excited to move forward in my life and gain new experiences, make new friends, and just become an adult, but I also wish I could rewind and just do all of high school all over again and relive EVERYTHING. (okay maybe not EVERYTHING) In reality, I can’t. I just have to take all my memories, stuff them in my senior box, and reminisce about them every time I see an Instagram post from someone I went to high school with. I learned that you can’t hold onto something forever, whether it’s tangible things or intangible memories. This year has also taught me that things don’t a...

2025 - Don't Sweat the Small Stuff - Freshman year at college will definitely be something new, and I think reading this book will help me be calmer  through all the new experiences.  2026 - Lateral Thinking - Just to widen my thinking and creativity.  2027- The DefininG Decade - I think this book will help me optimize my twenties and really make the most our of them.  2028 - A Little Life - It'll be my senior year of college, and it'll help me be more resilient and form a wider perspective. I also think my relationships with my friends will be more complex by then, and it would also make it a bit easier for me to understand people in general.  2029 - Siddharta - I fear that if I don't read this book at least once more in my life, I won't fully understand or get to experience a full circle moment and really reflect on how far I've come since my senior year in high school when I read it for the first time 2030 - The Laws of Human Nature - It's a psychology bo...