With university being so caught up on connections, increasing your employability, crafting your own profile and making yourself someone who others want you to be, I have almost forgotten who I used to be. It's not until I read back on something like this that I realise how far I've come this year.
I'm sure anyone can relate from this high school to university transition. I finished high school thinking that the HSC year had helped me mature and now we were already at the end of schooling, happy to never wear a uniform again, happy to just leave some of the kids in the grade that I hated, happy to leave the shitty school rules that teachers set. But then as I moved through this year I realised how much more there is to growing up. There's so much to being an adult that I hadn't previously knew and it makes me realise how ignorant and how much of an idiot I used to be. While I enjoy the freedom, we all know that it comes with a price: responsibility. The truth is at the end of the day, no one can care about yourself as much as you do. It's not about your parents giving you pocket money to spend every weekend, its about you taking the time and effort to make that money and use it wisely. I can't say that I liked those freeloading days though, cause when you generally learn to love your parents for what they have done for you, you want to repay their love and support as soon as possible. You want them to retire and just enjoy life because you know that throughout those 18 years of your childhood, they have done nothing but look after you and take your shit cause you were being an ignorant and dumb idiot who didn't know better.
So to rate my childhood, I guess I ended up pretty well, it was tough at times but I didn't end up too badly. There are many things that I would do differently if I was to relive it, but I know that everything happens for a reason and I am happy with what I have now and where I am. I thank all my past and present friends, and especially my family for what I've become and who I am.