Purpose
School started this past Monday, officially marking the start of my senior year. But instead of being a normal person and counting down the days, I decided to start a project I’ve been meaning to do for quite some time now, a photo-a-day blog. So hopefully, starting next week (the week of August 31), this blog will start getting some pictures (or photographs, if you’re that pretentious) of school life. They’ll be posted at least one a day, every day of the school year (so, none on weekends or holidays), maybe along with some quotes of interesting or funny things heard during the days, music, and whatever else seems like a good idea to put here.
After I graduated, it took me a bit to figure out what to do with this place. Because this is a fairly personal project, I wasn’t sure whether or not to continue on with it. It was pretty much either continuing it myself as I go on to college, or hand it off to an incoming senior who I knew could write well, take photos, and would keep up with it all. It’s a bit scary to turn something that you poured a year of your life into over to someone else and have them take it in their own direction, but hey, whatever. It’s better than having it all descend into obsolescence or detract from my original intention for this place.
Senior year is momentous for a reason, and without this place I don’t think I would have remembered half of it. There’s so much hilarity to be heard from the most unexpected of places and much beauty to be found from the most mundane things at that occasional hellhole we call high school. What I managed to do was create a little snippet of my mentality and priorities during the denouement of high school, a sort of personal yearbook to go alongside the one that I so readily purchased for about 80 bucks and is filled with letters from people that I may not see for quite some time.
I look forward to seeing this place evolve with the introduction of new writer-photographers.
~ Ananta Prayitno, Class of 2010.
the fourth year by Ananta Prayitno is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. all photos are copyright 2009-2010 Ananta Prayitno unless otherwise stated.
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