College Admission essay about what I learned and know now from moving from Florida to south carolina and then back to Florida. These are some notes I took. I moved when I was 13 and left when I was 16 and the school in Charleston was called Ashley hall
-Prime teenage years 13-16
-How something can feel so important when it’s in your everyday life
-Spending my whole childhood until 13 in one place with the same people then moving to a completely different life with all new people and focusing 3 full years of my life completely on that place and forgetting what my old life was back home just to find out I had to go back
-Relationships with people and their importance
-My room and how I left it then moving back home and seeing it the same way I left it in 8th grade
-I loved my life in 8th grade living in palm beach and being devastated when I found out about the move then hating it at first in Charleston then learning to love it and forgetting about my life back home where I grew up then finding out I had to go back after completely adjusting to my new life
-The struggle of making friends at first with people who had been going to school together since preschool, especially during covid and how everyone knew everyone and everything about each other and I had to start fresh as a freshman in high school
-How I realized the little importance of popularity and who you were friends with when I moved back and realized how much better life was when I started not to care and started caring about the more important things in life
-How when I moved, I forgot about my old friends and life in palm beach and now that I am back how the same thing is happening with my friends in Charleston
-How something can seem so important for a certain period of time and then like nothing
-How I still struggle with this and get attached and how I’m currently trying to overcome it
-Focusing too much on little things that won’t matter to you in the future
-Still trying to navigate this
-Becoming so hyper focused on little thing you lose sight of the bigger picture
-Stages of life
-smelling perfume bring you back to specific times in your life
-How it felt on the first day we were allowed on campus at Ashley Hall
Theme: Hyper focusing on certain relationships, and events in your life and how easily it can distract you from what really matters, priorities