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Always tired: Stress and no time for a real life |
Many
teenagers have two priorities: to go to school and to make a living for
themselves. Education is an important part of life. With a good education,
you can go out and make something of yourself. But when some of us work
long, hard hours, coming home so tired, sore, and sleepy, it can be tough.
Many of us in this school have jobs, but usually this interferes with
school, our social lives, and our relationships with our friends and
family. Being tired from working so much can lead to slacking on your
studies, and it can strain relationships with friends, and distance you
from your family.
Many
students have jobs and play at least one sport. Feeling the pressure is an
all too familiar feeling for most of us. When asked about his busy sports
schedule, Sophomore Charles Cha said, “Playing a sport easily
takes away from the time you could be working on a report or something of
the sort. Practice takes up almost all the day besides having to go to
school, and the pressure sets in when the daily routine of having to get
up, go to school half awake and then off to practice becomes a part of
your life. It isn’t easy trying to keep up with it all, when you have a
project due and your time is needed and you can’t go after school to
work on it. That’s the advantage some have over others, with all the
things to do, it stresses you out.”
A
more relaxed view of this issue is that of Senior Jeff Cason, who
stated, “Nothing really stresses me out or worries me, although it gets
a bit hectic around the time of getting so many projects assigned all at
once, but that’s about the only real hassle, if that really counts. It
takes away from your spare time definitely, but that’s just a part of it
all. You have to figure out your priorities and make certain sacrifices,
but you’ll get through it. So many teenagers stress over final exams,
but I don’t, I am certain about what I am doing and I know I’ll be
fine.”
He
also brought up an interesting point about college bound seniors-“So
many seniors right now are worrying about what college they are going to
go to, and if they get accepted to their college of choice, and even if
they are going to go to college. I was pretty confident in myself about
the whole thing; I knew what I wanted, and I knew I was going to be
accepted. So why worry about it? I knew it was going to go with my favor.
No need to stress over things like that, it’s all good.”