As days go by, it’s always a blur, but bright things are ahead of us. Governor Greg Abbott says, ``Graduation outside are allowed.” Now personally, I’m not having hope for being able to graduate and walk the stage in front of my family and friends I grew up with.

Twelve years of hard work and dedication to one thing and one thing only -- the day you officially start your life as an adult on graduation day. Now every kid thinks about this day a thousand times before they graduate, They think about what they will do after high school; and yet we have these ideas in our head of how graduation will go and what we will do afterward -- but honestly we don’t really know what life has in store for us.

Personally, graduation means one thing. It means saying goodbye to the past twelve years of your life and saying hello to what comes next. Everyone has different plans for after high school, whether it’s trade school or college or going to work. Everyone is different. We all have different plans and memories we are gonna make, but one thing we will always remember is graduation day and our senior year.

Now the Class of 2020 is always going to be a year to remember not for the fact that COVID-19 took so much away, but that it also gave us a new look on life. On what’s important and that a community’s come together and helps each other out. We also won’t forget the people who took time out of their lives to “adopt a senior” or “adopt a kindergarten” or the people who just sent letters or bought stuff off Amazon and sent goodie baskets and gifts to seniors all around the world.

We won’t forget the little things that made this time so much easier and bearable. We won’t forget the people who risked their lives during this pandemic to keep stores open and the doctors and nurses who kept working when faced with something so scary it could have taken their lives.

So this week’s journal is basically saying how thankful I am to these people who have done so much and aren’t getting the recognition they should be getting. This world we live in is unfair and cruel and messed up at times, but if you look closely beyond what you can’t see, there is so much good in all of this craziness. People should take time and thank these people who have done so much and don’t get the credit or the thank you. So from the class of 2020, I would like to say thank you.

Editor’s note: Students in Blanco High School English classes have written weekly journals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brooke Kotfas, BHS teacher, asked Taylor Royce to share her May 5 journal entry with The Blanco County News, and we share it with you here.