Whenever I talk to my older brother (who's a sophomore in college) about going to a football game or going to a school event, he often criticizes me. He says that high school is a joke. Now I wouldn't go that far because it's not a joke, it's real life and many people care about it. However, I have began to understand where he's coming from. Really, everything that goes on in high school is just a perception. Everything that happens isn't really as important as we take it to be. In five years we won't still be thinking about that really awesome basketball game or that huge test we had on Friday. It's the same with us thinking about middle school. Middle school wasn't that important in our minds, and when we were middle schoolers we didn't think that elementary school was all that it was hyped up to be when we were there. It's really all a big preparation because later in our lives, there will be a test that will change our lives. Passing the MCATs is a big deal or the LSATs. Both of those tests would change our lives, but a D on a chemistry test in high school wouldn't impact us at all as long as we got an A on the next test.

Everything is important to everyone now. Everything that is happening NOW is often the most important thing to us, and I think that most of us will realize in later years that what's happening NOW is not always the most important thing for us to think about.