I don't really know why I'm starting this blog. I kind of just want to use it as an outlet. Some days I'll use it to vent, other days I might do fashion posts or crafts. Just kidding. I won't do crafts. I'm really bad at crafts. Crafts are stressful and this isn't meant to be a stressful place. It's meant to be a relaxing place. So, no crafts. Sorry crafty people. Also no math, math is also really stressful.
Anyway, today is October 10, Columbus Day. Leif Erikson day was yesterday, and even though he technically discovered North America first, I like Columbus Day better because we get the day off from school. So thank you Lief Erikson for discovering where I live and thank you Columbus for giving me a day off. I'm a junior in high school and God knows, I need a day off. Everyone who ever told you that junior year sucks is right, believe them. I mean it's kind of cool in some ways, I get to learn how to drive, prom is a thing this year, and no longer am I an underclassman. But also, this is the year that colleges look at the most. This year could make or break my entire future. So this year, there's a lot of pressure. My parents don't put very much pressure on me, they'd be fine if I got straight B's and maybe even some C's, it's me who causes my own stress. I put a ton of pressure on myself and I find that to be true for a lot of high school students, at least a lot at my school. Sure there's some kids who have those crazy parents that have notifications turned on for when PowerSchool changes, but there's a lot of other kids who just put that pressure on themselves. Sometimes I wish I could just say that my parents are the reason for all my stress, but they're not. OK, well they're responsible for a little bit of it, but most of it is me. So the question is: why do I do this to myself? Why am I slowly killing myself with stress? I always complain about stress, so why do I stress myself out? I want to put the blame somewhere else, but I just can't, it's all on me. And I think that lot's of high school students feel the same way. We don't have to be this stressed, so why do we put pressure on others to feel as stressed as us? I know that in my school it's kind of a competition between students to see who is the most stressed out. When someone says "I only got 4 hours of sleep last night" there's almost always another person who jumps in claiming that they got less. WHY IS THIS A THING????? Or if someone says that they did homework for 3 hours straight the night before, someone else almost always one ups them. Stress is now a competition among teens and whoever is able to participate in the most extracurricular activities, get good grades and have a social life wins. And whoever that person is, it is the other students' goal to bring them down and watch them crumble under pressure. Think about it, when that person who always aces those history quizzes gets a B, you feel happy, you don't feel bad for them, you might even hope they score lower on the next one so you can get one step closer to being on top. So who's to blame for this? Is it the American education system as a whole, or just the students who take part in it? Did we create this competition that has actually caused death among our peers? I don't really know. But I do know that we have to change it somehow.
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