Being your average, middle class girl from the Northeast has afforded me personal freedom and a liberal mindset. I have been sparred from some of the more disturbing problems in life - poverty, chronic disease, etc.
But I always find myself under an extreme amount of pressure.
I have always been a bit of an overachiever because I can never sit still. I've always done well in school, I do extracurriculars that I enjoy, I do community service for causes I feel strongly about and I have worked since I was 16. I never do things just to do them either - I always do what I feel strongly about.
But it's never enough - ever.
I hate guidance counselors. Since high school, I've never been able to trust an authority figure who's job includes giving me advice. My high school guidance counselor always told me I never did enough and told me colleges were "reach schools" even though my credentials stacked up.
Getting good grades wasn't enough. I worked so hard through out my schooling and I was suppose to get a merit scholarship from my public university I choose to attend. But what happened? The government took away public university merit scholarships the year I was accepted.
Then I see the "Overachievers Under 30" section on the CNN.com. It just makes me feel like I don't do enough or whatever I do isn't great enough. I'm always doing something (including running blood drives which I feel most strongly about), but I feel like the other things I do go unnoticed.
It's not that I want to be on the CNN homepage. I just feel that a lot of my peers do great things or are constantly involved in things and don't get attention either. It just puts a lot of pressure on me and my peers, even though I do too much in a day.
Do you find you have the same pressures on you? If you're not in school, do you have those same pressures? I'm wondering if I'm the only one who feels this way.
I'd love to hear your feelings.
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Look every single person who has ever been in high school feels exactly like you do. It's horrible and unfair and unbelievably stressful but you just have to deal with it. I'm in AP classes, have chores at home, plus I'm in NHS and theater, both which take up an extream amount of time before, after and outside of school. Anyone can complain about stress, and pressure. Forgive me for not pitying you but I hear stuff like this every day of my life. Life isn't made to be easy.
A wise man once said "I don't know ask a girl."
*Emily*
You know, telling someone to get over it really isn't fair. It may be a breeze for you, but to assume that others should feel the same or that they should just suck it up ignores the reality that not everyone processes or deals with things in the same way.
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~Fallon~
“What is insanity, anyway? Is it when you scream and everyone else whispers, or is it when you fight for what's right, even when everyone else thinks your wrong?” Ethergoth
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Maybe you misunderstood the point of my post.
I'm not looking for pity. I hate pity. I hate receiving it and giving it.
I was trying to start a discussion and see how others feel about feelings I often encounter in my life. I know I'll be okay and I know that right now, I'm headed on the path to success. Just sometimes, it becomes a lot to handle at once and I wanted to know how my peers felt in the same situation.
Sorry it wasn't meant as an attack, I had been reading through a lot of blogs all day and several of them were all about how stressful the life of a teenager is and by the time I hit yours it just sounded like a "pity me my life is so sad" kind of thing. I'm sure you didn't mean for it to be that way it mostly had to do with the progression of what I had read that day.
A wise man once said "I don't know ask a girl."
*Emily*
Do you, perchance, listen to Paramore?
Nicholas Aden
Self-Promotion
My Creative Writing
haha
I do actually.
And when I wrote the title I immediately started singing that song.
Totally called that one.
Nicholas Aden
Self-Promotion
My Creative Writing
anything to do with college puts pressure on me. i have struggled when really i shouldnt have. just schools in general are stressful, we just have to remember that we are strong individuals and we can handle anything thrown our way!