My Masterpiece: Senioritis

I never used to understand senioritis. I never could understand how people could lose so much motivation for school, life, whatever in such a short time. I used to look at seniors and think "You spent nearly thirteen years of your life in school. This is the last little stretch and you're just going to give up?" But today I had an epiphany.

I woke up late this morning and it was beautiful outside. But I couldn't enjoy it. I looked at the giant list of things I had to do from chores to homework to scholarships and gazing out the window I felt absolutely zero motivation to do any of it. It's now about 4:30 and I've still done nothing. About 20 minutes ago I decided to take a break from all the homework I wasn't doing and went outside. Even though the sun is setting in about an hour it was still nice out. I thought about how much nicer I would have been to have gone to the beach, or gone for a hike, or even just a short run, just to get away.

There is so much to do senior year. Even though I only have four classes and am done a noon, I'm more busy than I ever have been. These are the four most demanding classes I've taken, so it's really not any sort of break. On top of that there's college and even though I've finished all my applications I'm no where near to being done since I get emails every day from colleges asking me to do this that and the other thing, plus there's financial aid and scholarships to do. Applications where such a huge deal that now that they're complete I feel like I should be moving out already. The applications got me so excited and feeling so ready that when I had to go back to school after winter break it didn't seem real. This is senirotitis.

I've applied to college I'm ready to move on with my life to potentially move across the country and start off on my own. When you think about how crazy that is in the grand scheme of my life so far physics homework seems trivial. Why should I spend my time doing homework on such a beautiful day when I could be off having an adventure with my friends just enjoying the outdoors and the last few months I have living at home as a kid. Having all this homework to do has caused me to have the feeling that I have wasted a day, potentially one of my last days living around here.

This all comes back to what I want to do for my masterpiece. Lately all I've wanted to do is have adventures seeing new things and enjoying old things I've been doing for years like surfing and hiking. For my masterpiece I want to do all this with a group of friends or whoever wants to come. I've also really enjoyed film, editing and making videos with music, and I happen to own a GoPro. The company GoPro makes really amazing short videos of people doing fun things like I've explained, so why not start a YouTube channel where I can post various videos of my adventures with my friends. Also I want to have friends post/ make videos of all the cool things they get up to even after we all move away to show what we are all doing with our lives, and stay in touch.