Growing up can sometimes be a scary, stressful, and a surprisingly fast time of your life. Every year I think ‘wow, I am a junior already!’ My life whether I like it or not is moving forward and I can’t afford to stay put in the past. I do not think my age really hit me until I saw my brother in the high school hallway. I saw him walking wondering what he was doing upstairs but soon realized that he was now a freshman. The little kid I grew up with, played in the mud together, and beat each other up was growing up.

Everyone who has a sibling will agree the saying ‘well were siblings’ makes sense on a deeper level than anyone else can understand. Yes siblings argue, pick on each other, and beat up the other they are also your friend in need when no one else is there. When your parents argue and only they understand how it feels knowing some of the people you love the most are fighting. Siblings sometimes have telepathic powers and pulling pranks with them is one of the best parts about being related. We were in diapers together and now he is taller than me and my little baby brother is playing varsity football.

It is scary to think he is growing up but then I realize in two years I will be in college. I am still trying to understand how that happened. There is talk about the SAT and ACT to try to get into you preferred colleges but I do not know where to even start. Where do you want go and what do you want to do are questions I am still scared about making the wrong decision. \  It seems just like yesterday I was in kindergarten getting asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I am still confused on that too. Life keeps moving forward and faster than I wanted it to. My sports or better known as my life will be ripped away from me in just a measly two years. My teammates that I saw grow up alongside me are now driving and leaving for college.

People always say “I can’t believe you are growing up so fast!” To me though, it felt life was moving in slow motion. I would never turn 16 and get my license or be a senior and graduate. It felt like a millennium away but now reality has caught up with me and I do not know if I can keep up. I will be leaving my family to go and get a job of my own and see my baby brother get married. Everything I thought of time is now completely altered because how could my elementary and middle school years feel that they would never end but high school will disappear if I just pause to take a breath?

There is nothing I can do to stop time from getting away from me and now that I see him walking through the hallways time has even further advanced from my grasp. The only thing I can think of to do is enjoy the brief moments I have left and watch him grow older but trying to remember as he gets older I do too.