After High School, What Next?

In every stage of our life, our instructors say to us: “When this is over, you are good for the rest of your life,” as well as make statements like: "there won’t be a hard time after this." The truth is, such sayings are repeated, and when it finally comes true is when we are buried inches down in dirt. But there was this point after high school when I felt it came to be almost right. After so many years of studying at different schools, meeting new friends and talking with so many teachers on a regular basis-not to mention those rigorous exams and presentation-there is this feeling of relief that every high school student feels. Personally, my group of friends celebrated wildly and so did I. When you are in highschool, your body and mind is set to wake up early, think about homework and other various assignments that it’s literally like a living hell. That leaves a great deal of aftershock even if you have graduated highschool.

 

After high school which way you want to go?

I remember the day after my graduation when I woke up on time and was about to take a bath and wear my uniform and think about what to do today suddenly my mom said, “You don’t have to go to school.” AH! I am a highschool graduate now. Those schedules and lame assignments don’t bother me anymore and then I got back to bed and slept for a while. This happened a couple of times but then I got used to not going to school and trust me it’s very hard. All those years under the same environment and suddenly everything changes, it’s hard to get adjusted to a new life. The mindsets don’t go easily and you start missing your highschool and that’s when in a snap of finger, all those good aspects of your memories when you were in highschool comes to you. Well that’s what it is, we will cover this topic another time …!

  

Moving on, after highschool, for a period, everyone is free to do as per his/her's will. For a moment, it does feel like everything is over. You are provided with many choices and the judgements of your parents and the society do not bother you anymore. You don’t have to care about reading something your parents want neither should you live under the expectation of others. This is the time of transition when you should really take various considerations in mind. There will be so many choices that we literally get swayed away: sometimes we get a thought to study engineering and find solutions, sometimes we get a thought to become a doctor, sometimes it’s the thought of being a player and so on and so forth. The idea of earning money suddenly becomes more evident and clear as well as the chances and prospects. You are no longer a kid and you should look out for yourself. But all these choices can be categorized into two basic things:

• Do you want to excel on whatever you have interest on and do something in future? Do you want to take another step in your studies and join college? 

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• Do you want to give up, it’s too much for you already and you don’t want to waste your life studying, so you work part time and life the rest of your life?

These are two choices that will define what you want to become and do in future. These are two choices no one can force you to choose because it’s your life and you get to make the decisions for yourself. And whatever you choose you will have to live with it for the rest of your life. I know people say it’s never late to do anything and there are examples of unexpected people doing exceptional things in their life, but the thing is it’s not completely realistic and not everyone is outstanding. This transition period is the only place where you get to make this decision, and when this passes it’s hard to turn, I could even say it’s impossible. It's because everyone and everything have their time and there is something so mystical about time that it never waits for anyone and when it passes it’s over.

If you choose the second one then it’s okay you did well. You are tired of everything and want to take a break. You can always work and earn and live your life and have a very good time. It’s up to you as to how you use your time and resources. Maybe it was fate which made you choose this way, maybe it was trying to make you learn something that you couldn’t have learnt in college. Maybe you are going to be more successful in your life than those who go to college would be. You can never be too sure about life, the failures and success it brings and the magnitude of changes it makes us experience is truly intimidating. Most of us choose the first option and personally I did the same thing. I joined a university for my bachelor’s degree and hopefully I will take it even further. This way to be bold, you can study and make your future even brighter because in this era of modernism, education person is the greatest key to success and every person needs to have education weather it is formal or informal succeed. You don’t just get it you will have to earn it through hard work and labour.

 

To sum up, the first thing I discussed about in this article, the things the instructor often say to us students, “After this it will be all over”, they are not wrong for being optimist since they only say that to inspire us to read well so we can get better education. But the fact that during the transition from high school to college, personally I believe this is the point when it’s all over in a sense because we take a decision here. The decision to choose which way we want to go and this is the hardest thing we will ever do because both choices seems to be so very swaying that it literally feels like we are in a paradox. But when this is done we will have get past the tallest peak of obstacles we will have in our life and maybe there will be hard times ahead, but nothing will compare to the level of discomfort and confusion we had to bear when we decided which way to go. It's because it’s the way we will be going forever and it’s not something we get to do again. So take a moment, think about what your interests are and what you want to do in your life and make the decision and shape your future because the things which will follow you in future would be things you expected to come when you had to decide. And you chose this way because at that particular point with full consent you knew you will keep your promises.