For someone
who have always strived to do everything as perfect as possible, I hate that
saying.
Sometimes
the things in life can't be perfect, but you just got to make the best of it.
It's not giving up, to say that you aren't good at everything, or that you
can't do exactly what the person besides you do. Because we were all born as
individuals, and who says that we can't redefine perfect?
Some struggle
to keep up with the expectations of the society, while others like myself struggle
to keep up with their own demands.
Looking at
our generation some may say, and defiantly have said that it's the laziest and
most irresponsible generation of all times. But they couldn't be more wrong,
yes maybe we don't have to go out and work a full time job at the age of 15,
but the pressure of being a young student is bigger than ever before.
We are
expected to know what we want to do with the rest of our life at the age of 16,
we have to choose a future, because failing is not really an option anymore.
There is not enough time for us to take a year of from school to really learn
who we are and become adults, no we are supposed to be wisdom of a 50 year old
at the age 18. It may be silly to stop trying, because you are afraid of failing,
but when there isn't room for mistakes, it's slowly becoming the reality.
And where
there is pressure there is stress. Stress is mostly associated with adults, but
now it's slowly becoming the rule and not the exception that teenagers get it
to.
You may
think I am overreacting but being a teenager who came down with stress 2 years
ago, I know what I’m talking about, or at least I think I do.
I expected
myself to get the highest grades, and be the best of everything I did. Because
I knew that being the best would get you further in life. I was sabotaging
myself by doing that, I couldn't handle the pressure. A year later I was given
the diagnose ADD, and I was ready to forgive myself for not being able to
handle the pressure, for not being perfect. Because I for once had an excuse
for giving myself space to breathe.
Giving my
personality I will never stop striving to be my best, and I will always compete
to win, but now I can forgive myself for the times I might not be everything I want
to be.
Different
people have different problems, and nobody is or ever will be perfect. So give
yourself a break, be bold and remember perfect is boring.
-Emilie
