16.5 [Coming of Age Challenge]

16.5 means second-guessing your every move trying to predict the impact it'll have trying to make the right choices.

16.5 means sobbing at Senior Speeches in that cramped, sacred greenroom because you know it will be your turn soon

to leave, and to choose: your passion or your practicality?

At 16.5, countless doors await you waiting to be opened, but you're not quite there.

and when you reach the door you choose, you will put your hand on the doorknob and close your eyes and breathe the last breath of your childhood.