This year, I fell down and got back up more times than ever before. Some lifelong dreams came true; graduation and the Senior class play were the highlights. I was Valedictorian and got a bunch of other prizes at my graduation. I got the lead in the school play. I was accepted in the College I wanted to be in and found direction — at least for now. It was a year of learning. It was a year of losing. I lost faith in myself, in the people around me. The months went by and I realized who I loved for himself and who I loved for trivial reasons. I realized how truly strong I am capable of being and how truly weak I accept to be sometimes. I learned that some days, I could be weak and he would be there to hold me. I could mope and he would try to understand that even the strong get tired sometimes. I guess at the end I can just say that even though I lost faith in many things, I gained so much more faith in my relationship. We have always been friends but never as much as this year. It made us weak, it made us fragile…but it made us grow and now we’re strong.

I have one regret from this year and I’ll have to live with it, but I have so many things to be thankful for I hope I find the strength to focus on that.