We will never forget the good times and even the bad … but now we must go on with our lives and see the future ahead of us.

A few more hours to be complete … a few more times that I can say I’ve loved these days. ~ Billy Joel

We picked up our caps and gowns and all that senior stuff that’s supposed to help us remember the good ole days, but some of the things that you remember the most, can’t be put on paper. That day finally came, and you sat there with all the friends you had made over the years … you looked out at your family and deep down, you knew that this was a once in a lifetime moment. It was the last time in your life that all these people would be together in once place. Yeah, there would be reunions, but there was always the chance that one person wouldn’t make it there. You looked back on your time with these people and realized it was short lived and that it didn’t seem as if there was enough time for everything that you wanted to accomplish … sports, activities, SAT, ACT, and all that good stuff. They called your name, your tassel got turned, and you got a piece of paper that said you were smart. Then you said good-bye … maybe to your town, and that school and your friends. You know that you can go back to visit, but there will be strangers in the halls and it’s not the same. It’s different … you’re different … but it’s not the end. In fact, everything is just the beginning.

How lucky I am to have someone who makes saying good-bye so hard.

Good-byes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had and what you lost and what you’ve taken for granted.

I’ll remember the laughter as we go our separate ways, but there’s so much we’re learning and we cannot be afraid. There’s a world outside our door and nothing in our way, but if it’s not what we’re both looking for, we’ll meet again someday.

Today is the day we leave our past behind; today we say our last good-byes. Memories in the back of my mind, held close by until the day I die.

I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone. ~ Dr. Suess

Good-byes hurt the worst when you never really got to say hello.

We are the lucky ones; some people never get to do all we got to do. ~ Carole King

Never say good-bye because saying good-bye means going away, and going away means forgetting. ~ Peter Pan

I believe in karma – what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can’t appreciate real love until you’ve been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don’t know what you’ve got until you say good-bye
~ Savage Garden

And I say it’s okay if you never say good-bye. ~ PM Dawn

Promise me that you won't forget me ever. Because if I thought you would, I wouldn't leave. ~ Winnie the Pooh

Somehow I know we'll meet again. Not sure quite where and I don't know just when. You're in my heart so until then, it's time for saying good-bye. ~ The Muppets Take Manhattan

We attach ourselves so strongly to people that when they're gone, a part of us is gone too.

I’ll never find anyone to replace you, guess I’ll have to make it through this time without you.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. ~ Jean Paul Richter

I can’t remember how all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these memories as they pass.

You spend 12 years of your life trying to learn how to live, but every time you try to live you are told that you’re wrong. Then everyone you’ve grown to love is taken away and scattered. That’s what they should teach us in school … to say good-bye and let go.

All good things must come to an end, but I wouldn’t want it to end with any other people or be at any other time.

I’ve learned that good-byes will always hurt; pictures will never replace having been there; memories, good or bad, will bring tears; and words can never replace feelings.

I don’t know what I would do if I wouldn’t have met you. I believe I would’ve been a lost soul with no place to go. Please God, help make this good-bye easier.

Even though we say good-bye, remember: we still watch the same sunset.

I never say good-bye to anyone. I can’t let go of people. I take them with me.

I want to remember how you’ve made me laugh, and sometimes cry, and I never want to forget how special and different you are. And how you touch my heart in a way that no one else ever could.

The only truly painful good-byes are the ones that are never said and never explained.

Maybe someday we’ll meet again … when our two roads hit the same dead end.

I walked through those doors with a half smile on my face. I walked in expecting to see those “big seniors” shoving through the hallways: laughing, giving each other bad times … I expected to see them taking their last year and absorbing it all. I expected them to look at me and think, “Just another lower classman.” I expected to have one or two in my classes, giving the teachers a hard time because they’re a “big senior”. I expected to see my senior friends’ faces and to make my last year with them the best that I could. I expected to have a couple more years in this place. If not that, then at least one more. I guess I expected all of the wrong things because I knew that the second I walked through those doors, I had become “a big senior”. This is it, my last year of high school, my last year of those homework assignments that I complained about every day of those four years I had been here. Give them back, please, give me back those essays … those book reports … they’ll never compare to the things I’m going to have to face in this real world that isn’t even a year away from hitting me right in the face. Let me keep my friends, please. I’ve been with some of these people since kindergarten. How can it all stop just like that? Better yet, where did it go? How did I let time slip by so fast? Give me time, just let me tell all these people … all of my friends … how much they mean to me. Let me go back to my freshman year, to tell my teachers how much I really did learn. Give me the time to tell them that what they did for not only me … but for everyone else in this place DID make an impact on our lives. Stop. Let me tell all of those people who said, “It’ll go by fast” how right they were. Slow down … just please slow down. How sad it is, to think that the first day of my last year is gone. I can’t bring back the past, but I can make the future a past that I’ll remember … for the rest of my life. After all, I am … a big senior.