Break You or Make You

 As we grow older we seem to find life even more difficult than the last. We see more of this cruel world. We see the hardships that are to come. We see our future and quite frankly it scares us. Life is not going to get any more easier than today, but if we grow as a person we will grow to deal with them.

  As students in high school we all believe that each day is a curse. That we have to wake up each and everyday to learn something that is not relevant to actual real life situations or that we need to deal with the horrendous day that is to come. There is never a day that I don't seem to see a boy or girl in Twitter complaining about school. Whether about their grades, classes, or/and teachers. I myself have done all of the above. But one day I came upon a revealing video, showed by a AVID speaker on a field trip, about a point of view by a teacher. This video showed me a true love for students a teacher has. How they want us to be better in life, to have big dreams. It was lovely. It made me think that school isn't a game. It is more than just a curse, it's our future.

  As students we say, "At least I did it!". Yes we did it but, so what? We didn't try our best. We didn't give it all we had. We didn't do what was expected. So how are we going to complain later on that our teachers aren't teaching us well when we as students aren't doing our best? How are teachers going to teach us anything if we don't show them what we are capable of. If they see that we are B students they will try and help us be A's students, but we won't truly learn anything if our capability is already a A. I, at times, don't do what is required of me to do. Yes I turn things in and get ok grades, but I'm never satisfied. And how could I if what I turned in isn't what I am capable of doing. Each and every single one of us can be better if we only try.

  Yes life is hard, and life can at times be frustrating but that shouldn't give us the reason to quit. So you may say, "But I tried and that's better than nothing". Yes it may be better than nothing but that is a state of mind for failure. If we all have that mental note that it's better than nothing, one day we will do nothing because you see that others don't do anything so why should you?

   Quitting is never the answer. We need to learn how to be big boys and girls and man up! Life is not going to get any easier at the rate we are living but what I am saying is that we can grow and mature and take responsibility in our life. Work a little more, try to give it another chance, and look at the good side of the problem. The only thing a problem can do to you is break you or make you, but that's all up to us.