By Renee Rohani
Business Manager
“So, do you have your prom dress yet?”
I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve been asked this question just this week. As my friends all around me begin to one by one snatch a great steal on a dress of their own, I sit in stubborn defiance, promising myself I’ll wait until atleast March.
While I can understand (and share) my fellow seniors’ excitement about the dance of all dances that we’ve only been dreaming of for all of our high school careers, I feel the need to ask: “Isn’t it a bit early?”
Sure, there are a million things to discuss and think about and plan, but for some reason every time the conversations in the lunchroom or between classes begin to find their way toward the subject of prom, I find myself a bit squeamish.
“It’s just around the corner. It’ll be here before we know it”, they all say.
And maybe that’s the thing that worries me the most.
Sometimes I find myself thinking how I got to this point so fast. A second-semester senior. A victim of senioritis. My name already signed off to a university. It’s as if I blinked and now I’m here.
It feels as if prom will be that moment where it finally clicks that we’re actually leaving this small town school for the big bad world.
Not that I’m not utterly thrilled to be graduating. I’ve got one foot out the door just as much as any other senior. It just seems like other people grow up and graduate college. Other people apply for scholarships and find roommates. Other people go to prom.
Not anymore. It’s our turn.
And maybe that’s why I don’t want to think about it. The senior event that marks the downhill slope toward the end of high school is looming ahead while I look back in bewilderment at the messy blur of the last couple years of Coppell High School.
I must admit it’s bittersweet. You patiently wait for your time to come and then it’s here and you don’t know what to do with it. So I suppose the only thing there is to do is embrace it: embrace the memories and the people and the time left. Embrace it for all it’s worth.
After all, the only major event left after prom is… graduation.
I think I may go prom-dress shopping this weekend.
