My Childhood: High School Musical

So as I was looking through my computer files, I found my High School Musical CDs hidden somewhere deep in my computer. You probably have no idea how happy I was. As I as those CDs I was transported right back into my childhood and my love and obsession for a beautiful, young blonde: Sharpay Evans.

I remember the first time I saw Sharpay. I was dazzled. She was so confident and poised, and sure she was fictional, but she became my role model. I guess you could say that Sharpay is where my blond obsession began. Maybe yes, maybe no. Who knows? Anyway, I loved Sharpay from the first time I saw her. I loved her so much, and my love for her grew when I saw High School Musical 2.
I was living with my cousins around the time HSM2 came out and we all watched it together in the living room. After an hour and a half of movie, we all became obsessed. The months following the premiere of HSM2, my cousins, my brother, and I watched the movie about ten times. We even made re-enactments of the scenes, mainly the “Fabulous” song by Sharpay.
Oh, you don’t know how many times we danced and sang to HSM. It was our obsession. My cousin even was Sharpay for Halloween – two years in a row! We bought endless High School Musical merchandise – books, CDs, blankets, dolls, stickers, notebooks, backpacks, and more! Our house was an endless HSM place! We loved it!
By the time High School Musical 3: Senior Year came out, we were die-hard fans. We were excited and sad for the premiere of HSM3. It was the last HSM movie. The end of our childhood. The end of those three years of happiness. We watched the movie on the day it came out and loved it. We laughed, sang, and cried. Our favorites characters had graduated and moved on to greater and better things.
Oh, we cried and cried. And then we moved on. Somehow, we stopped with the HSM stuff and moved to new things. We cousins grew apart. We pursued new things. We moved to different houses and we never talked like we use to ever again.
And today, about four years after HSM3 came out, here I am. Remembering the pas, listening to the HSM music, tears streaming down my face, tears of happiness. Happiness because recalling those good times I had with my cousins are priceless. Those are the moments that will always be in my heart. HSM was my childhood and it will always be MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE TRILOGY!  There hasn’t been any other movie that has had such an impact on me; that’s showed me that dreams do come true. That if you work hard and believe anything can be possible. There has never been a movie that has showed me the power of friendship and how much it means. I love HSM and I always will!
Me and my cousins don’t talk much, but we’ll always be connected even when we’re old and have kids. We’ll all be connected by the power of High School Musical. We’ll get our kids together and make them obsessed with HSM. We’ll show them how wonderful it is!
Okay, that is all. Good bye, darlings, thanks for reading this and remember, in the words of High School Musical, “we’re all in this together!”

-MS