High School-The worst years of our lives

You walk in and seem to still have your whole life ahead of you.

Eyes and hearts filled with wonder as to what the next four years will bring.

Excited to start a new chapter in life, and maybe start a whole new life.

Throughout high school you are learning, memorizing, studying until your eyes are glued to the pages, you are trying to balance clubs, grades, social life, and your sanity.

We learn so much about the world throughout these four short years. Sometimes it’s amazing, and sometimes, well, it’s a slap in the face.

We are expected to manage all these things, while being pressured to do well on tests, and decide about the future. But--how can we decide our whole life, throughout all of these things through high school we seemed to forget one thing. We hardly ever study ourselves. Who are we? What do we care about? What do we want to do?

We cry at night, put on a face at day. We push ourselves beyond our limits, we are expected of so much.

I have a question. How can they expect us to be perfect students. They expect to much out of us. We are humans just as you are, we can’t do everything.

Through High School, we may lose friends, family, possessions, games, but sometimes we lose our own self.

That is scary.

The fact that we are so pressured, and consumed with things being perfect. Or being consumed with the mental need to fit in that we lose who we truly are is so scary.

This is suppose to be the best four years of our lives, but is it really?

Three years in and we are expected to have a whole plan for our life. Is that even fair?

By the time we cross that stage, what have we accomplished? Memorized formulas that we may never use? Cried endless amounts of tears? Lost friends? Lost ourselves? Been forced into something we may not love?

What about finding our passions? Finding out who we are? High school students, have it rough. We are kids, not super humans.

We are not perfect, nor we ever be.

We are students who are trying their best, and trying to make it in this world.

We do not need the pressure, we provide that ourselves.