Madonna has been around for ages. She's like top-quality sticky glue; she sticks around for a long, long, long time. And out of all her famous songs (so what if I only know one?), one catchy chorus keeps running around inside my head: "Time goes by...so slowly..."
Now, I'm usually not one to express my opinions on the subject of Madonna, but I must say for once that I do not agree with the lyrics in her song. (Okay, so I don't agree with a lot of things when it comes to Madonna, but that's beside the point.) Time so does not go by slowly. It blasts by like a NASA rocket and before you know it, you're back on planet Earth, the one planet where an un-named species educate their young by placing them in a box building for a third of their lives. They say that education will help our survival in society - but why is it so typical of adults to miss the bigger picture? The dangers of society is nothing compared to all the mysterious things hiding in unreachable corners of the universe - and when Martians attack, what's going to help us more, to communicate in Martian or French?
Anyway, all pop/rock/old singers aside, something extraordinary happened today. So there I was lying down on my bed, trying to count the little lumps in the ceiling, when I happened to catch sight of the calendar hanging on the wall. And guess what it said the date was? August 24. I was enormously ticked off. I could've sworn that when I went to bed yesterday night it was still June something. I thought, Ha, yah right, no stupid calendar is going to fool me. I was just about to march downstairs to go teach my brothers a lesson for messing with my calendar when I decided to check my computer, and what I saw nearly made me jump out of my skin. The date read, August 24, 2008. They had the nerve to tinker with my computer?! I could literally feel the steam blowing out of my ears, and I was ready to smother them with my excessive steam.
So imagine my shock when I ran downstairs only to find myself staring at the closing ceremony of the Olympics. To my credit, my jaw didn't drop; it simply unhinged. My first thought was, I traveled through time. My second thought was, Oh my god I traveled through time! My third thought was, I'm hungry. But on my trip to the fridge, the truth suddenly sunk in. I had a week left before school begins again. Another year, another summer, gone already?
The automatic response would be to enter depression mode that I've wasted another summer. But when I thought about it, the fact is that's not entirely true. I've gained a lot freedom this summer...and a lot more responsibilities. I'm allowed to go downtown with friends for a day because my parents trust me enough, but I'm also given a lot more chores because they trust me enough to depend on me. There are some friends who will still stick around if you don't see each other for two months, and some who don't. So I guess I've gained deeper friendships, and at the same time lost shallower ones. Romantically, I've sent myself to hell with jealousy for someone that I'd never have expected myself to. And let's face it; it's high school, so I know that I won't be spending the rest of my life with every crush I have. But all in all, a year flies by so blindingly fast; it doesn't give most of us enough time to react. A few more years later, I won't be this self-absorbed teen who depends on her parents anymore; I'll be somewhere else in the world, free to do anything I want, living on my own. But the drama of high school life is so bittersweet, it's like a low-budget teen flick movie that makes you want to click the pause button on the remote control for all the good parts and fast forward through the rest.
So maybe Madonna's right after all: "Time goes by...so slowly..."
Roni, 15
mouthwatering…the whip cream topping with chocolate shavings, delicious creamy coffee, and ice chilling sensation? Umm...yummy. Has anyone try the Oreo Sundae from Baskin Robbins? I just found out that it has 1330 calories and 31g of saturated fat. If you don’t know, 1330 calories is two thirds of your calorie needed daily and 31g of fat is over your daily need of saturated fat. So even though it is so tasty (I haven’t try it, but come on, you know it is good just by the look of it alright?) I am getting really hungry now, so let’s move on to a different subject- BOOKS!!! (I don’t understand how I first talk about volunteering then food…)

