So long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye

So long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye

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by Lord Muro

We laugh, we cry, we live. I laughed, I cried, I lived. Experiencing life here at GHS was an adventure: from moving to this small town not even a quarter of what I was used to, to meeting everybody for the first time, to creating friendships to last a lifetime.

I want to say although it wasn’t easy, I am so grateful to every single person here at Goshen High that made my experience here not as I thought it would be. In my four years of high school, and attending three different ones, I would say without a doubt that I matured and mentally grew the most here. I was pushed out of my shell and broke boundaries that I set upon my arrival in Goshen in late July.  I’ve met people here at Goshen that have altered my life in such an incredible way and they don’t even have a clue.

When I moved to Goshen, I held such a resentment, I didn’t want to meet anyone, I didn’t care to make friends, I wanted no ties whatsoever when I decided to leave Goshen (the sooner, the better!) I didn’t want to meet more people who would bully me. I didn’t want to meet more people for me to be insecure around. I wanted to crawl in a hole and live there until graduation. My depression didn’t even let me give Goshen a chance. And then I was warmly greeted by people with open arms and an open mind to who I was.

Since then, I’ve had those friends come and go, checking up on me to make sure I’m still okay and I can’t be any more grateful. These people helped me accept my insecurities and look forward to a future even if I didn’t see one. It’s these people that everybody needs in their life. Those people helped me blossom into a better person and want to help others the way they helped me. So, as I leave and take a piece of Goshen’s heart with me wherever I may roam, a piece of my own heart will stay here with the people that made my life just a tiny bit more amazing.

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lshetler

GHS English Teacher

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