It’s worth the struggle

“Education comes first because that is what is going to help you succeed in life and help you to become the person you want to be,” said Ronald Jones.
In high school, you always hear lame excuses about why kids don’t do their assignments. Students would rather lie than own up to the fact that they were lazy and didn’t do the work. Instead these students come up with excuses like“I didn’t have time”, “I had practice”, “I didn’t know we had to do that”, or everyone’s go to, “My dog ate my homework.” Beside these pitiful excuses, what’s even more pitiful is that these students truly believe that teachers will believe these excuses. \
It’s true kids have a lot on their plates these days, between sports, school, work, and other activities, but you chose to take on those responsibilities. No one is threatening to fail you if you don’t play in a football game, but there is going to be an E on your report card if you don’t turn in that English essay. In life there is a balance, a balance that you have to find between everything you do. And you may have to make tough decisions, and I’m not talking about what you are going to wear tomorrow. I mean cutting back your extracurricular activities. Don’t put so much on your plate that you aren’t able to finish your dinner and have room for dessert. Because the next thing you know you’ll have bald spots from where you pulled out your hair and no fingernails because of your constant biting.
Stressing yourself out does nothing, but give you acne and take years off your life; it’s not worth it. I understand that it is hard to let go of trying to do everything, but sometimes it’s for the best. I know I have been there. I used to work almost every night as an EMT, help run a horse business, be the Editor-in-Chief of the Misentity magazine, the features editor of the newspaper, a full time caregiver of a horse and dog, and an honor roll, full time student with a background of unsupportive parents.
Sleeping and eating were not a priority for me. In fact, things got to the point where I was no longer enjoying what I was doing, or the people I was around, and I was physically and mentally at the end of my sanity. Life had become a struggle. It got so bad that I didn’t want to get up in morning, and couldn’t find time to do my homework unless it was at 3 a.m.
But one day I took the advice of someone very intelligent and started doing the things that not only made me a happier person, but made me a better person. I cut back on my work hours, started doing my homework right after school before I did anything else, used horses as relaxation rather than frustration, and started enjoying life again.
My point is this: tthe excuses that you are just spewing out for why you aren’t successful aren’t fooling everyone. The only person you are fooling is yourself for thinking that you can get away with it. So do me a favor, before you take all that energy to make up an excuse, use that energy and put it towards something productive. Trust me, it might not feel like it now, but school and life may be a struggle sometimes, but you’ll be grateful that you fought all the way to the finish.