Being a sophomore in high school means, basically, loosing sleep over homework, teen drama, assignments and crazy, scary paper tests that seem to appear after every corner. In Romania, school started about three weeks ago, and ever since then I've been enrolled in a fast and too many times furious roller coaster, I've been up and down papers and projects and fights over unimportant matters, I've been high, really high, but I've also hit the bottom. I find that many students nowadays are not coping too well with the stress an average high school day can bring-and, even though I'm no psychologist, I've come up with a few ways they could improve their school life and hopefully turn it into something fun and useful.
Now, I get that too many stressful events can easily lead to anxiety and even further into depression, but if there is one thing that I've learned in this ten amazing and also terrifying years I've spent in school, is that, apart from death and...well, death, everything works out. And I know it's hard to believe and I know that some of you may roll your eyes at me, but think about it: Will it matter in one year? Because let me tell you something, it won't.
Yes, you've heard me, or better yet you've red me. Everything works out, and there is absolutely no reason for you to think otherwise. Start telling yourself this and you'll come to actually believe it. And seriously now, will it matter in one year that you've had a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend , that you failed a test or that your mom grounded you and now you can't go to that amazing party ? No. So why loose sleep over it? Why charge yourself with all this crazy, dark, negative energy that would eventually consume you? Trust me. I've been there, and I've cried over boys whose names I can't remember right now, and I've fought with my parents over and over and over again because of some bad grades that don't matter anymore, and I've missed parties and I've never been too popular, but who the f cares?
No one. Because none of this things matter. You need to take a deep breath and start telling yourself that you can make it. There is something inside you greater than every obstacle. Please remember this next time you feel down.
Start focusing on stuff that matters and stop worrying about minor things. Think about college. Make a plan. Wake up, go to school and smile to everyone. Do your assignments when you have a little bit of extra time so you won't have to stay up late...again. Get involved into things that you like, join clubs and go trips. Stop depending on others. Find yourself. Meet new people. Laugh as much as you can. Fail sometimes, this is the only way you'll gain experience. Be positive, Help others. Breath every once in a while. Dump that asshole, you can do better. Read, read more, read as much as you can. Stay informed-you need to know about what's going on around you!
Try new things. Cry sometimes. Do extra assignments so that you save your average. Experience. Be honest, but never rude. Remember all this things next time you go to school. See, you are stuck here and there is really no way you can avoid it. ( btw, you shouldn't. Knowledge means power) SO you should start focusing of making the best of it, best of anything really.
Because no matter how hard it seems now, you'll never be this young again. And you'll miss it.
I'll miss it...
