It was November 2020, I was in 8th grade when everything changed for me. I grew up in a city called Pomona and participated in choir, loved hanging out with my best friends Ruby and Joselyn, enjoyed playing volleyball, and making Tik Tok videos with my friends. I created so many memories with my friends here, making a pact that we will be best friends forever no matter where we go. I had everything here in Pomona. I had a hard time making friends and I am grateful I met my two best friends. I had cherished every moment not knowing what the future had for me. Until I received a message from my Dad that he booked a meeting to see a new house in Fontana, not knowing what that city has for me. My parents wanted to get a bigger house for us and a chance to meet new people. I was not familiar with new changes in my life and weeks later we got the house. I did not want to move schools, nor leave my best friends I had grown up with since elementary, I did not want to leave at all. I created a plan to go to my new school for 2 years and by the time I have my driver’s license, I will make it a priority to go drive to their high school in La Verne with my friends and to never lose contact with them. I did not give a new change a chance, I did not want anyone to convince me at all. I did not like the idea of starting over, I had the fear of not making friends and that my old friends would forget about me. Luckily, I got to complete my full year of 8th grade with them and cherish every moment we had together.
The time where it all started, my first day of freshman year at Etiwanda High School in August 2021 and being nervous on my own. I was not ready to be alone without my best friends, Ruby and Joselyn on my side. The sun was shining through the trees as I walked the unfamiliar path to my brand new school, carrying a weight of loneliness. Walking through the halls, each laugh and hug reminded me of my two best friends. Whenever I have the chance, I text my best friends to see how they are doing, telling them how I miss them. Therefore, days have passed and it eventually turned into months that have passed in that new school, still hanging out with Ruby and Joselyn. I had them and what I always said to them, “just two more years!” clinging to the hope I had. I was ready to move schools when that time came, praying that I would go back when junior year came around, not giving this new school a chance.
During the end of the school year, my last day of being a sophomore student, I met many great people at Etiwanda High School, created many friendships throughout the past 2 years and I got to meet friends that have the same common interest. All the people I let into my life have welcomed me and changed my life in ways I couldn’t imagine. It was easy to make friends and I did not want to leave this school. Unfortunately, me and my old friends were not that close anymore during that time and we had our own lives to focus on. They made new friends and I lost contact with Joselyn, but was not close with Ruby either. Life happens and makes me wonder “what if I never moved schools?” I said. I enjoyed staying here, I made more friends here and I did this all on my own. All I had to do was give change a chance.
Looking back at everything God has done in my life has changed who I become and it only started by giving the opportunities a chance to set my future. I’m not the same girl in freshman year that didn’t embrace opportunities, I became the person that is ready for new decisions that the hard times will pass eventually. This event became an important lesson for myself that life will throw you big changes and it will be hard finding your way, in a different point of view the changes are good because you’re looking for something new. It’s January 2025, the year where new beginnings will happen and it will need a change, new experiences will come our way and it’s a chance to explore. Throughout my life, I have experienced change and we won’t forget the memories, but it allows us to make room for new beginnings.
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