Dear Diary,
There are so many things that are expected of me these days by colleges, teachers, parents, siblings, and even sometimes friends. There is so much pressure to have good grades, be well rounded, and still maintain your health and social life that it can sometimes be too difficult to take. Go to school, go home, do your homework then sleep. When did my life become so defined by society, so boring and stressful? I can’t remember the last time I had a few hours to just do what I wanted to do, because of all that needs to be done before I graduate.
These expectations are like a cage that is keeping my true personality cooped up in a cage because it's not what society wants from me. Society wants me to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer. It wants me to be a robot whose priorities don’t exist, because it just does what it’s programmed to. When did the human race’s priorities get so mixed up, and when did a job and little pieces of paper that we invented become more important than helping the people around us? Why is it the expectation that all kids should be doctors or lawyers, what about the musicians, playwrights, actors, and artists? Doesn’t the world need them too?
Why can’t kids excel where they excel and strive to be better where they do not? Why can't teachers and parents push them up rather than down by lifting the weight of their expectations off of their kid’s or student’s backs? Rather than stress them out with all this homework, why don’t teachers make themselves available to them so that instead of waiting for school to end each day they look forward to the beginning of the day, the week, the month, the school year? These few simple actions could have major effects on many kids who face the struggles of being caged by other people’s expectations, because no one deserves to have to hide their personality from the world due to a society's expectations. Each man, woman, and child is unique and hence they should be treated that way not looked down upon because they don’t fit into a society's goals or categorizations.
There are so many things that are expected of me these days by colleges, teachers, parents, siblings, and even sometimes friends. There is so much pressure to have good grades, be well rounded, and still maintain your health and social life that it can sometimes be too difficult to take. Go to school, go home, do your homework then sleep. When did my life become so defined by society, so boring and stressful? I can’t remember the last time I had a few hours to just do what I wanted to do, because of all that needs to be done before I graduate.
These expectations are like a cage that is keeping my true personality cooped up in a cage because it's not what society wants from me. Society wants me to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer. It wants me to be a robot whose priorities don’t exist, because it just does what it’s programmed to. When did the human race’s priorities get so mixed up, and when did a job and little pieces of paper that we invented become more important than helping the people around us? Why is it the expectation that all kids should be doctors or lawyers, what about the musicians, playwrights, actors, and artists? Doesn’t the world need them too?
Why can’t kids excel where they excel and strive to be better where they do not? Why can't teachers and parents push them up rather than down by lifting the weight of their expectations off of their kid’s or student’s backs? Rather than stress them out with all this homework, why don’t teachers make themselves available to them so that instead of waiting for school to end each day they look forward to the beginning of the day, the week, the month, the school year? These few simple actions could have major effects on many kids who face the struggles of being caged by other people’s expectations, because no one deserves to have to hide their personality from the world due to a society's expectations. Each man, woman, and child is unique and hence they should be treated that way not looked down upon because they don’t fit into a society's goals or categorizations.