Goodbye in my eyes and tears in my heart

When I was 8 years old I wanted nothing more than to be an author.

At 10 I gave it up, and I never seriously wrote again until

I was 17. And I signed up for Creative Writing at Lone Peak.

I can honestly say that Creative Writing was one of the best things to happen to me in High School. I learned so many life lessons that no Math or History class could have taught me. I learned to genuinely be comfortable in my own skin, which I was NEVER okay with. I learned everyone has had shit hit the fan at one time or another in their life. I learned that everyone is weird, everyone is terrible, everyone is wonderful.

I'm going to miss Nelson and his incredibly unorthodox teaching methods

and how hilariously refreshing that was.

I'm going to miss the blogs,

and how excited I was to breathe life into Flat Stanley.

I'm going to miss the friends I made, 

Even though we never hung outside of A4, it was still nice.

I'll miss the jokes, the videos, the laughs, the tears.

I'll miss how we came together when we lost 2 knights,

And how all beautiful the posts were at those times.

I'll miss how you guys liked my art. I was embarrassed of it until

I saw how supportive you guys were of it. And that puts a smile 

on my face every time I think about it.

But I think what I'll miss most....

Is being heard. 

having a voice. 

Escaping to creativity.

I'll miss that a lot.

It pains me to know that I wont be seeing your faces every day, 

possibly never again.

Never again.

So If I can say one last thing to you all it would be this:

I love each of you individually more than you actually realize. 

I appreciate you all on a level that you wont know, and I truly do mean that.

I want to thank you all for the genuine smiles you put on my face each class, 

And for making my relentless grey days feel just a little more yellow.

Thank you for including me in your Paris, and letting me be part of this weird family.

I really will miss each and every one of you for specific reasons. And I sincerely hope,

Sincerely hope

That life after this small classroom is everything you all dreamed. 

Take love my dear friends, and don't let your hearts die.

--- 

Flat Stanley 

P.s. I didn't think that my last High School assignment ever would be this hard.