We Remember

We forget half of what they teach us in school, but we remember plenty of other things. We remember faces, and names. We remember locker numbers and combination codes. We remember ugly wall colors, narrow stairwells, and too crowded halls. We remember smiles and laughter, sneers and tears. We remember free periods and lunches. We remember ditch days and sick days. We remember.

School is not just about learning and educating. It is about the friends we make, the ones we don't, and what we do not learn in books and never will. It is about what we come away with at the end of it all, the person we become, the person we are meant to become. It is about memories that we will carry forever, good and bad. We may not remember everything we are taught, but we remember.