Kat Klinefelter

The random elective I took after a scheduling conflict was never supposed to consume my life. However, I am glad that it did.

I now leave North Allegheny having been the editor of two different NA publications, producing more videos than I can count, and taking even more photos.

I never saw myself as one of those people who would point to something and say, “That thing, that’s mine. I made that”. Now, I have a hyperlink that does that for me.

My favorite movie is about people who have always felt that way, too. They weren’t the loudest people or the most outgoing people, but they still had something to say.

I’ve always tried to envision my life as a movie because then, hopefully, I’d get the same happy ending as those characters. I’ve spent so much time wishing to feel like the fictitious characters that I cling to that I didn’t even realize that I had let almost four years of high school go by trying to chase a feeling that wasn’t real. Life isn’t like the movies. Sometimes you will feel like you don’t belong. You’ll spend all night wondering if your friends will still be your friends after you’re gone. You’ll wonder if you said something wrong.

You’ll wonder about all these things, but in the end, they won’t really matter if you begin to live in the now. Stop wasting time trying to find the perfect feeling because you’ll end up missing it if you keep focusing on what comes next.

This has been the best year of my life because I stopped wasting my time searching for moments that could only be scripted. I could sum everything up, but I think I’ll just let someone else do that. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”- Ferris Bueller.