"I'm at the starting line of the rest of my life, as ready as I've ever been."

So seeing as how we are about to enter our second semester of junior year, I felt it was necessary to talk about how close we are to being on our own.  On Friday I got my PSAT results, along with a letter about how the post high school counseling office is going to function.  I read the letter and I was shocked to learn that we are honestly so close to going to college.  I mean, I know that we are juniors and what not and that it is just around the corner, but hearing about talking to your Post High School Counselor is going to start really soon, scared me!  I couldn't help but ask myself, where did the good old days of nap time and book reports go?  When did I trade those late night talking session for late night cramming sessions?  We are going into our second semester of junior year in a little bit more than a week and that means that we are closer than ever to being seniors and having to make those huge decisions about college.  At least for me, I feel extremely anxious and nervous about the entire process.  I don't know if it is just me feeling that way or if others are too but I feel like it sort of snuck up on us.  To think about the fact that in a little over a year, we will be about a semester away from GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL is very intimidating.  So I found myself listening to this song called, "Ready, Set, Don't go" by Billy Ray Cyrus.  A lyric caught my eye, "I'm at the starting line of the rest of my life, as ready as I've ever been."  To me, that line sums up completely where we are in our lives.  We must now begin making all these decisions and thinking about the rest of our lives.  And I do feel that I am as ready as I have ever been to make those decisions, just because of the amazing progress in school that I have made and with everything.  I am nervous but I am excited too!  Because I believe, that even though it is very close to happening, we are ready to begin the rest of our lives.  And I know that if I fall and need help, my parents will be there for me.  Anyone else feeling the anxiety of graduation and what not?