word to yo motha

One more semester and seniors will be leaving EHS for good. For most, the excitement of being out on their own is almost overbearing, getting ready for college and what not. There are also many decisions to be made. One of which I think tends to be the biggest decision, that will, in essence, determine your whole post-high school fate. This would be the decision whether to move out of Mommy and Daddy's house.

In some ways, it is essential to be out in the real world by yourself. Its going to happen sometime so why not in your just-graduated high school youth. Some may want to take baby steps by living in dorms, but I say the heck with that. You cannot taste and feel the true fulfillment of being completely free without moving out of state or getting your own place. Some young, eager-to-please students may have a hard time leaving their parents, but it is the only way. It is essential.

Getting away from your parents should be every eighteen-year-old kids dream. You won't have a curfew anymore or mommy telling you when its time for lights out. If your religious, law-abiding parents have kept you locked up all your life, you will be in heaven.

Along from not having a curfew, you probably wont have money flow from Ma or Pa. That's why seniors need a job and money saving skills. This is also imperative. At 18, by law, teens become adults, and their actions on how you handle this knew world by yourself will make or brake your first year out.

Parents may be good at keeping you on track, and teaching you life lessons, but at 18, you have been a student of life for eighteen years. You are ready to fly out of the nest, so fly away. Go out and throw yourself into the real world, and see what happens. What's the worst that can happen? Move back in with Mom and Dad?

Getting the hell out of the house a.s.a.p.,