I have always loved the song “Don’t You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds, but this year it has more appeal — the fact that it ends one of the most iconic teenage movies of the 80s (and perhaps of all time) doesn’t hurt. I feel like all people just want to be remembered. How else does one explain the great pyramids, ridiculous statues or crappy greeting cards (and no, the answer is not aliens).

Since the school won’t allow me to erect a twenty-foot statue of myself in the cafeteria, it leads me to wonder: how will I be remembered?

I was never the funniest, the nicest, the most well dressed or the smartest. And while I feel like I’m fairly average, I don’t think I was even the most average. When awards are handed out I always get the weird awards that either don’t fit me or were clearly made up so I wouldn’t feel left out, and, to anyone who ever had to come up with an award for me, I thank you; it is nice to at least be remembered.

But the point is I usually end up with an award for coolest last name or something generic — “Oh! What about that Megan girl? We still need something for her! Wait, wasn’t she wearing glasses the other day? YES!” And then I end up with an award for “Most Likely to Wear Glasses.” For anyone who doesn’t know my glasses-wearing habits, I wear them almost everyday.

Such awards are the equivalent of saying “You never did anything that really grabbed my attention negatively, but then again I really don’t quite remember what your face looks like, so I guess you never did anything awesome either,” which is the same thing as saying “Hey, you didn’t suck that much, I guess.”

And the point of that is I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who “didn’t suck that much, I guess.”

I want to be remembered for all the clumsy, strange, wacky things I did because those events and things are what make up my past — they are all part of me.

I want to be remembered for tripping down the stairs on senior dress-up day, in my “moderately” short heels. I want to make people laugh as they remember how I temporarily played all the parts during the Cinderella scene of The Brother’s Grimm Spectaculathon. I want to make people feel repulsed as they recall how I hardly ever wore shoes, even when walking through the hallway.

Lastly, I want people to think fondly of me every once in awhile for all the things I did and said.

What I don’t want is for people to be sad when they remember me. Sure, they can miss me, but I don’t want anyone to ever be sad because of me, so remember me fondly please, for all the clumsy, strange and wacky things I have done in my four years here at Legacy.

So here is to seeing everyone from the class of 2013 at the ten year reunion.