Death is real loss. It is real pain. It is something that rightfully has the power to consume and tear someone down.
Now a days, my big problems are school. Why is school my entire life and all of my worries? Does it make sense that a learning establishment deserves my attention 24/7 and gets to make me unhappy? I guess I'm the only one to blame though. Trying to do well to have a good future, requires a lot of work. How I feel is up to me. I'm not saying school has put me into a wreck, not at all. I just feel that sometimes school does get the better of me and it can be its own kind of pain.
I'm obviously happy any of you that know me. I have a lot of things in life going for me. My families great, my grades are good, I play basketball and have a lot of fun in band however school and homework fills up most of my life. Should school be the largest aspect of our lives because once it is, you realize that school is life. They say that we need to run and play and get our sleep but we stay up attempting to do as well as we can while trying to avoid the point of unhappiness in schools efforts.
I don't know if anyone feels the same I do and it doesn't really matter, I just was stressing about school all day and procrastinating but i couldn't enjoy the day because it was there, sitting on my lap. None of this is schools fault in a whole, I obviously could be doing more, why not just get it done, get rid of the distractions, then do things. It's because i don't think i can, I feel like I'll go crazy. School and work is constant, never ending, and when you have to face something everyday that has no enjoyment, exhausts you and you see no point to it can drive you crazy.
School is needed and it is a great thing. Everyone who has the ability to go to schools is incredibly lucky. Knowledge is power, and school sets you up to go on to great jobs, to make new discoveries and to help the world.
My big point to all this is that why is not that school is bad, it is that I lost two of the most important people in my life and it caused immense pain yet but I feel the same things pain and stress from school. My focus and my struggles are from the place that is supposed to prepare me for life and take on the world. Life should be what makes us happy and that's what we should fill it with. Knowledge gives us the ability to find happiness and hold on to it yet school seems more like a testing ground than a place of learning, and seeing a constant stress because of papers, scores, and grades that I can see as a big issue in my life when some of the biggest are the losses of my dearest loved ones is scary. I guess I can't control school so I'll keep living remembering this, that i need to remember the real fears in life not the mere distractions I have to face.
This stress and the fact that stresses of school compare to my deepest pain is what was wrong.
I think this post can resonate with a lot of students, I know at times I can feel the exact same way. Personally, I definitely agree with your line "you realize school is life." I know that school is a huge part of my life, and it may almost seem as if I'm always doing work. It's the sacrifice we make as students to succeed in life, and as a result some of us become extremely stressed. I like the points you make, and I agree with the post in general; and also like you said, it doesn't mean there aren't enjoyable moments in our lives, but the stress from school can sometimes consume us.
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ReplyDeleteI found this statement very thought-provoking, since there are two sides to it. One side you touched on quite a bit in your post, that we are able to eliminate distractions and, simply, just do more, then enjoy life. However on the other side of it, the workload and expectations that come with school almost turn us into robots at times; sometimes I think about how time goes by so fast, and I realize it's because every single day is nearly the same: wake up at 6am, go to school, go home, do homework, sleep, repeat. Weekends and school breaks seem to be the only escapes, until you realize that you STILL have work to do. It's a cycle that has been going on since middle school, one that only gets worse over time, and it's a bit frightening at times to say the least.
That's a great picture to complement this post. I hope it was helpful just to get some of this off of your chest. I wish there was a way I could bring back the fun to school, but it is absolutely essential that you find it somewhere.
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