We are young

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From Shining Star's blog:

As young students learning we put too much pressure on ourselves to get good marks, but yet keep up good looks and sports and a social life. I know it can all be very tiring and sometimes frustrating. We sometimes wake up at 5am so we can straighten our hair or even study (I know I have done that before) or we wake up at 6am and skip breakfast so we can make it to school on time. Sometimes we just need to say forget this and just go have fun at the movies or something. We just need to leave it all go. We are still young and we don't need the pressure right now. We will obviously be under more pressure when we get older and have a job and kids to take care of. Right now as young people we just need to have fun. We need to have memories of our childhood growing up. We don't want memories of missing parties because we had to study or missing out on the movies because we had a project. Don't get me wrong you still need to have your assignments done on time but we have to put less pressure on our selves. Me, I know I have gotten called before to go to the movies with some friends but I had to say no because I had to work on a project. Now I wish that I had had the time to go to the movies with them. I wish I hadn't missed those laughs. We must have a balance of fun and education. 

Most of us are scared of making mistakes but making mistakes is the number one way to learn. It is like riding our bike for the first time. We are scared to go cause we don't want to fall but once we get going and our parents let go we realize that it is not so bad, we are soaring on our own. With mistakes we are scared to make a mistake mainly because we don't know what comes next but once we make the mistake and learn from it, most of the time we do not do it again. Yes it is really bad at the moment but after it really is not that bad. 

If you think about it we can be compared to plane. When we are kids were backing up, we get older and we make it to the runway preparing for take off, then we grow up to be adults and the plane takes off, we are soaring on our own hopping everything is right. 

We can't plan out how we want to turn out. We can't plan our lives. We can't guarantee that the plane will fly smoothly. We will be given speed bumps in the road but we have to learn to deal with them and in the end it makes us stronger. We learned and we know how to deal with it the next time. 

Don't get frustrated every time you make a mistake, just learn and remember that the mistake is preparing you for take off. 

We are young and we are learning. We are young, waiting to fly.