Anna's Post

This topic, for me, has been very difficult. I have always thought of emotional "baggage" in a negative sense, dried remains of distress, cold, haunting regrets, hidden shadows of what used to be. This is the baggage I will leave behind. Any opportunities I have neglected in the past 8 years or things I was to afraid to say or broken friendships I have failed to repair, I leave behind. I will say goodbye to anything I wish I'd done. I will drop the bag that is my failure. I leave regret behind me. However, there are things I will take with me as I depart in three short weeks. These things will be my wallet, my tote bag, a convenient necessity in my life as opposed to the burden that is presented by a suitcase. I will carry my memories by my side and my friends in my heart as I make my way through summer days and early fall. I will take what I have learned with me as I sit through Deerfield orientation and my first high school classes. As restless as I feel, as finished as I am, and as downright sick of Pine Point School my mind is in this moment, I will take this special place with me wherever I may go.