Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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Reflecting on the past, present and future

As I passed my tassel from right to left with the Boerne High School Class of 2022, I felt the breath of the past four years shared with my classmates brush through us with the slight evening wind. It was then that our adolescence ended as quickly as it had brought itself on. Fearfully, I recalled the many who had told me that high school would be the best years of my life, and with hope, I realized they wouldn’t be.

As I passed my tassel from right to left with the Boerne High School Class of 2022, I felt the breath of the past four years shared with my classmates brush through us with the slight evening wind. It was then that our adolescence ended as quickly as it had brought itself on. Fearfully, I recalled the many who had told me that high school would be the best years of my life, and with hope, I realized they wouldn’t be.

My high school days were spent with eyes on the future. At Boerne High, academic competition is high, and while I was blessed to be in this environment where education was so genuinely cultivated, the stress of achievement eroded my teenage years. With clubs, extracurriculars, AP classes, dual credit classes and even the social pressure to belong in this community of excellence, I forgot what it was to be young all whilst, paradoxically, in the midst of my own youth.

For Boerne graduates, our shared memories include Friday night stadium lights, pep rallies and some very notable morning announcements. We also were collectively influenced by the effects of COVID-19. During the time of our lives where we were meant to be most social, we were isolated. With many classmates learning remotely for almost half of our high school careers, the Class of 2022 was inevitably less united by the good times in our hometown and more so divided by the calamitous era we came of age in.

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