Plastics- Rena Childers

      As a gangly, awkward 5th grader, I had a serious lack of confidence. This led to many boring weekends and weeknights spent doing the “safest” thing possible. The trend continued into seventh grade, until one day in history class, my teacher muttered, “the most interesting lives belong to the people who do the thing that scares them most.”  Desperate for more excitement in my life, I took what he said to heart. This is obviously not meant in a perfectly literal sense; however, it has helped create some of my most wonderful memories. For instance, it helped me choose to come to Henry Clay, travel to France by myself, and make an incredible group of friends. Comfort is overrated, in my opinion. I know it sounds cliché but are you really going to remember the times you sat at home or the times one thing led to another and you ended up in a diner at 3 am with your best friends. We are given such short lives and even shorter youths; I say we take advantage of every second.