So, I'm a thespian now. Yay!
Everyone cheered for everyone and I was one of the people that was cheered for the loudest, so that was pretty swell. But then, after initiation, we all talked and just hung out. That's when we realized: this was the last time that the seniors would ever be there with us. So, we all got sad. And there's this thing we do at initiation ceremonies where we just let out our thoughts, good or bad. And everyone's things were damn tear-jerkers if you ask me. I promised not to cry until after I said my thing, and I succeeded. Barely. What I said was basically this: back in middle school, I had no identity. I was pretty much "that guy's cousin with the sexy voice" and not much else. There was this guy who was in 5/6 of my classes and my cousin "introduced" us. His response was: "Why the **** should I care about this guy I don't even know?" That, combined with my total lack of anything resembling self, I thought "**** it, I just won't even try to make friends."
So that's what I did. Not make friends.
Fun fact: I didn't smile once in middle school.
Anyway, I decided to try out theater because I saw my dad act a few times and it looked fun. I acted and thought "Wow, this is pretty fun." Then high school rolled around and I was in neither in the cast nor the crew for the first show of the year so I was like "****." But the next two shows, I made crew. During that time, I met a lot of really, really cool people. Basically everyone in theater are those people. They made me feel like I had friends for the first time in who knew how long. I started smiling every now and then, too. I told everyone thank you, especially the seniors who were graduating, and I only barely made it without crying. Crying is rare from me. And I mean rare. So a lot of people were surprised and knew that I was being genuine. The seniors all said their things, and they were also really damn sad. Then the two teachers who usually act as our directors said things, and theirs were sad too.
Before I continue on, on one of our most recent shows, the graduating seniors chose people to do the things that they did to keep it going and I was chosen to be the one who gives everyone that one last rally. So, when the initiation was over and the custodians kicked us out of the school, I gathered everyone in a circle, our set up for how we do the thing, and nobody knew what I was doing and then I did the thing, and everyone joined in.
It was great, and a lot of people loved that I managed to finish it with that, especially since the graduaters won't be doing that again any time soon.
And then we all left, hoping to cross paths with the seniors again.