Celina Week #16: Dearest Diary,
Hi? I haven’t gotten far since I last wrote to you. Classes, friends, day-to-day, they are all the exact same. I suppose that might be because I haven’t written to you in months now. Each time I think that I should write something down, I convince myself that it is not necessary. Why put down every thought that comes to me in passing or write down a summary of a banal day? In fact, I’ve gotten quite good at doing it just in my head. I guess I have gotten used to keeping lots of things in my head. You don’t want to hear a list of that--it is long and monotonous and composed of plenty of unimportant idiosyncrasies that are best left far from pen and paper.
In other news, prom is coming up! All of these big life events one after another, and I just keep thinking to myself how it will all be over soon. I will be the senior that those freshmen look up to. I will be wearing black as I go to a night rally. How this can be, I cannot begin to fathom. I would like to confidently say that I am seventeen, and my birthday back in January proves the same, yet, it feels like I am twelve all over again. As if the world is my oyster indeed, but it is too late now. I think it is very deliberate how all of it works out: I find my way around just before the path turns into a new road. Anyway, that is all I have to report, which as I previously discussed, is truly nothing at all. Maybe I can get back to you sooner next time around.
Love and sympathies,
A Truly Clueless Gal
P.S. I attached a postcard and picture of where I might be going this summer; what do you think?
Hi Celina, I was hooked by the creative format of this blog! Diaries are so fitting for the bittersweetness of one year's end and another's beginning, and allow your conversational tone to shine in a sweetly personal way. What this entry really reminds me of is the ending of those teen coming-of-age movies, after the protagonist has undergone a lot of character growth. They always provide this frank and hopeful voice-over as they reflect on their journey and look forward to their life ahead, and as you are an actress you could probably do one really well. By the end of this blog I felt inspired. I hope you have a lovely summer trip to Boston; hopefully it's a bit cooler than the California heat.
ReplyDeleteHello, Celina! I loved how your blog this week was in the format of a diary! I thought this was a wonderful way to end off your year of writing blogs, using a practice or habit I’m sure many of us are familiar with, or at least understand it in a nostalgic context. I appreciate the honesty of your diary entry because sometimes it is truly that nothing interesting is going on—that mundaneness, though, isn't necessarily something bad. You’re right in that we have a lot of exciting events to look forward to! It is crazy to me that we are no longer the freshmen watching Class of 2023’s rallies, but rather the rising seniors who will be preparing our own last performances. Similarly, I agree that it feels just like yesterday that we were twelve—I’m turning eighteen this year, and that feels surreal. This is my last comment for the blogs that we have been writing since September, and I want to thank you for your writing that got me to reflect on the simple joys of life—like prom coming up! If you end up going, have fun in Boston!
ReplyDeleteHi, Celina! The diary format of your blog caught me by surprise and really drew me in! It made your writing so personal, and I thoroughly enjoyed the conversational tone. As I read your blog, I couldn’t help but feel nostalgic about how far we’ve come and how much we’ve grown. I remember coming to American High for the first time in 9th grade for maze day with my friend, and she’d said then that “We’re practically seniors!” I couldn’t help but laugh at the absurdity of the statement when she’d said that, but it’s crazy how what she’d said is now true. It felt like yesterday when we were freshmen, and we’re already almost starting our last year of high school!?
ReplyDeleteAlong with that, what you’ve written about finding your way just before the path turns couldn’t be more true. So many endings (including our last blog) and beginnings are coming up, and your blog does a beautiful job of addressing them in a nostalgic way. Thank you for all of the creative blogs you’ve shared with us this semester, and I hope you have an awesome summer in Boston!
Hi Celina! I like the direction you took with this blog, treating it as an actual diary, making it more authentic as if you’re writing for your book, not for an assignment. This is how a lot of my diary entries go, as well. I understand what you mean by that feeling of not wanting to write because you don’t think you have anything special to say, but that feeling of looking back at your old entries, seeing yourself as a completely different person, it’s incomparable. Beyond the style,
ReplyDeletewhat you detail in your entry couldn’t be more true. It’s crazy to think we’re about to become the class that we looked up to just a couple of years ago. I remember my friends and I having senior friends our freshman year, and even though their about to be juniors in college, we still call the the Seniors, so to think we’re about to enter that stage of our high school career is unreal. Have fun in Boston (manifesting an amazing summer trip)!