Friday, October 17, 2008
Junior year.. ♫ 7:24 PM
Okay. I haven't written here for a long time. But here I go [= I want to talk to you guys out there how awesome High School is. Sure there's a lot of drama, it's hard, academics stress you out and put pimples on your face, but hey, it's worth it.
I used to think that when my dad told me "Treasure your high school memories, it'll be the best four years of your life" I thought he meant that in a way that it'll be easy, it'll be the time you meet friends and have fun 24/7. But no, I learned that because of the hardships we go through, we get closer to people, we get to challenge ourselves with the complicated things we thought we'd never go through. Now that I'm a third year student, I only have, more or less, one year to go for high school.
It's not that easy to pass all your subjects and stay friends with ALL your friends. We're adolescents, teenagers, we go through these things at this age. So when you get annoyed with your friends, when you get into a fight with someone or when you're failing major subjects, don't worry. Things like those happen at our age. One way to solve that problem is to just stop worrying about it so much and relax about the whole thing. That's what I do. My mom told me that if I think about it too much, it'll be bad for me because I end up not getting what I want. If I do think about it, it'll be positive thinking, that's what my friend, Twinkle Ramirez, and my bro, Raymart Marzan, taught me. If i think positive enough, I'll end up getting what I want. Hell, I could get a million dollars if I thought real positive about it. Positivity is always the answer, a tiny hint if thinking negative will lower your chances of getting what you want. Don't believe me? Fine, it's not like I'm telling you to, but I can assure you a friggin' zillion percent that it's true. [=
Friends? Well, they come and go. Most of them aren't even how you expected them to be. Sometimes they get on your nerves when they rub things in your face. Sometimes, when you miss out on something, you don't like the way they tell you "You should've been there" as if you weren't having fun when you weren't with them. They backstab, they get annoying, they think of themselves more than others, they don't tell you things, they rub things in your face, they get competitive at times, but hey, it's not like no one does that. I'm not talking about anyone in particular, but it's just that it's hard to tolerate these things sometimes, especially if they've gone over the line.
When you have different groups of friends that you want to hang out with equally, sometimes you tell your friends that you won't go to lunch with them for today and you go with other friends you barely hang out with and want to catch up with. When you return to the classroom you hear one of your friends telling you "Oh my gosh! You should've been there! It was so fun! Everyone got so crazy and" blah blah blah! Do you know how annoying that is? It's like they brag to you how fun it is when you're not there, it makes me feel bad and left out. It's not like I don't have fun when I'm with my other friends. When I do crazy things with my other friends, they don't hear me bragging about how fun it was with them. But that's the good part, at least I know I don't rub things in their faces and that at least I had fun even without them. See?
You were probably thinking about how annoyed I was about the whole thing, but guess what? [= I'm not. I mean, I do get annoyed when it happens, but after a while, I actually feel really happy about it because I realize that it's not only with them that I have fun with, but also with other people, I don't want them to think that they're the most fun people in the universe, because they're not, there are a billion other people out there who are even crazier than they are, who are more fun to be with.
Anyways, another thing is your failing subjects. It's not that big a deal, if your parents shout at you or hit you when you fail something, then hell yea, hit them back. They have no right to d that to you, that's child abuse and they know better than to do that to their own child. If you think you won't get into a good college if you don't have good enough grades, trust me, people have gone through worse things, just make sure you're not cramming or studying too much because believe me, that'll just put pimples on your face and white hair on your head, in short, stress. It's bad for all of us, especially at a young age like this.
Problems? Relationships, friends, money? Dood, take it slowly. We're all too young to have problems. If you think you're having problems now, those are NOTHING compared to what our parents are going through, put yourself in their shoes and imagine how it feels for them to bring you to school, go to work, go to the supermarket to buy family needs, pay for electric and phone bills, pay for your tuition fee, borrow money from others or even have others borrow money from them. It doesn't sound all that hard if you listen to it, but if you just try to imagine how it feels, you'll know that it's a hundred times worse than the personal problems you're having right now.
Just take it easy and forget about these things for now. Focus on your studies and your social life, follow your dreams, but don't go too far like asking your parents to send you to the States or something, because everything needs time and you can't just get what you want by asking for it, you have to think about it, about why you want it and how you think you're going to get it, after that, work hard for it, hard enough just so you can reach it, don't try so hard though, because like I said, it adds stress and it doesn't help if you think too much about getting there.
Carpe Diem high school. It seems hard, but look at the bright side and look at how wonderful it is to be given the opportunity to have met who you've met and to be where you are right now. And no, carpe diem isn't all about taking pictures, making scrapbooks and writing in your diary and blogs, sure that's part of it, but what I've learned the most from my Angel is that Carpe Diem is all about living the moment as if it were your last, making the wonderful moments you're spending last longer than it actually is, time flies, but it won't if you don't let it. You can't stop time, but you can maximize it as much as you want. Enjoy your high school life because you're never getting it back, college will be a big black hole once you enter it because it's a while lot different from high school, it's not as nice as high school.
Remember that you're still young, you can't say High School is hell if you don't even know what hell looks like. [=
Labels: High School, Junior year
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