Do you ever have a day or days where you just want to pull all of your hair out from the insane amounts of stress and frustration? For me, this whole month has been endless days of these moments on replay. Now you may ask, "Why are you so stressed out? All you do is go from home to school, and from school back home." That's just the thing. The most stressful part of my life is school. Don't get me wrong, I love being able to have an education at the amazing school I attend and seeing my friends everyday. But sometimes all of the homework, practices, and everything in between can almost become too much to handle all at once.
One major piece of stress this past month has been the planning and preparation of PROM 2017. This year it is my class's responsibility to put on the prom. This includes dinner for all of the guests, the dance, decorations, invitations, and anything else that the word 'prom' entails. Going into this crazy and hectic journey with an open mind was the most important thing that I needed to keep reminding myself. It was super easy to be able to go in with an open mind, but now with all of the stressful aspects of this whole thing, it's hard to keep the same cheery attitude that I once had about prom. As prom creeps closer and closer, tension gets high at some points, but we all manage to stick together to get things done. For instance, I'm not the craftiest person in the world. So when my classmates and I decided that the invitations were going to be handmade, I wasn't too thrilled. The invitations, once finished, were absolutely stunning, but the process of making them was not. Cut, score, glue, tape, cut, score, glue, tape was definitely not how I wanted to make them. The stress aspect of this whole rant comes from the fact that the invites were due to go out on March 1st, and on February 27th, we hadn't even finished all of the envelopes. This all stress me out because I didn't want to have to rush the crafting process of the invitations and have them turn out sloppy. We managed to get all of the invites and enveloped finished by March 1st, thank the lucky stars! They turned out beautiful.
Even though this was a very minute blip on the stress pile I like to call Mount Neverrest, prom doesn't even come close to some of the stupid things I tend to stress out about. What jeans to wear today, to the question of what if I don't get enough points on a quiz to pass play roles in my ever rising stress level. But the thing that tends to keep me level headed and down the right path to not blow over the top is that I won't have stress like this my whole life. The stress of having to decide the best pair of jeans to wear to school, or stressing over that important athletic game, to even stressing about graduating high school. Through it all I remind myself to take a deep breath, sit back, and cherish these moments, because one day I won't have them ever again. This is just one more little taste of the crazy ride I like to call "high school."
