NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The days in 2013 are already slipping by as resolutions follow. We’re all getting back to the normal rush of life as the holidays get packaged up for next year, exchanged for something better, or put to the curb.
I’m finding that the older I get the more I need the feeling that the holidays bring, but I can’t find it. With school and pressure and the future, most of us just desire a few days of being a child again, but it isn’t there.
As I prepare to go back to school, I startle myself with the preparation I’m doing; preparation to be busy, preoccupied, and putting the present on hold for the sake of the future.
I’ve always been one of the students that works hard because it’s the only thing I’ve known and there’s a vision we’re all supposed to have and we can only keep moving forward if we pass their tests. Putting age in perspective however, changes things.
There’s no doubt that the teenage generation and their parents’ generation are dramatically different. As one struggles in the economy, politics and family, another is going through preventive methods to avoid the highly feared unemployment and, “going nowhere in life.”
It’s all about making something of yourself these days, not in character, but in work ethic.
College level classes are provided in high school, high school classes in middle school, and the only ones chanting to live while you’re young is my own generation. Sixteen years of life is suddenly ample amount of time to be able to decide what you should consume the rest of your life with. Or so they say.
Of course, you can and probably will change your major, not everyone belongs at college, some careers will come out of nowhere and find you, however, the generalized goal is college, and everyone is feeling the pressure. I admire my school for its emphasis on finding your passion and my more than enthusiastic principal for being so involved in the students’ lives and goals.
It’s society’s pressure on producing the next batch of workers, innovators and scientists that’s drained the childhood and adolescence from naïve students, unsuspecting students. I know I’m guilty of letting myself grow up too fast but who isn’t in some way?
It’s society’s pressure on producing the next batch of workers, innovators and scientists that’s drained the childhood and adolescence from naïve students, unsuspecting students. I know I’m guilty of letting myself grow up too fast but who isn’t in some way?
I’m just thinking in terms of 2013, in terms of the year before my graduating one and I’m not ready to accept adulthood.
I’m ready to be a teenager. Granted, nothing is going to change and I know it, at least not physically.
It’s about the mental state you put yourself in to allow yourself freedom and moments in your day where you can enjoy yourself without thinking of all you have to do. It’s hard to take chances when it’s not in the schedule but it’s hard to get anywhere without a risk.
I think it’s important not to think only in terms of the future; to get caught up in the possibilities and take the situations for granted. It’s okay to make mistakes that you’ll look back on and wonder how you’d ever do such a thing.
It’s okay to fall hopelessly in love, for the moment. It’s okay to change your mind. I think, at the end of the day, tomorrow is going to come no matter what but today, today is disappearing.
Today is what we live for. Today is all we have for sure.