So many times, i have wondered, what is the meaning of life?Â
Is it to be happy?
To find love?
To make a difference?
To experience new things?
Because I’m already 15 and felt like I’ve wasted a quarter of my life.Â
So much pressure is put on exceling in academics, but what’s the point? It feels as if everyday, the only purpose of life is to do well in every test in order to get a good job. It’s as if our lives are based soley on how well to do academically, and when we fail in academics, the repercussions are horrible.
The disappointment from the family…the judgement from the teachers and friends and the personal devastation. Why couldn’t i be born in a society where there was less emphasis placed on academics?Â
I just want to be happy.
Is that really too much to ask?
I read the other posts on this website, and realise that others face such different problems to me.  I feel so alone, so scared.
Am i the only one? I just can’t take all this pressure anymore. For once in my life i just want to let go and not care about what anyone says. I want to relax and not have to do anything. But I can’t, because I have 2 assignments due tomorrow and 2 exams next week. Always the same routine.Â
Help me. Please?
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just study normal dont stress your self because harms your health if you dont pass exam it is not end of the world be happy doing anything you like no matter what other can say
I want to. I wish i could just not care about exams and live life. But there’s so many things in my way. There’s so much i want to do, but I know there’ll be negative impacts, and i really can’t bear to go through it all…
You are not alone. I haven’t made too many posts on here, and most of them were made after I’d had a few beverages. Most of those posts were about that soul-crushing feeling you get when you try to plan out your future only to realize that the whole thing is one big trap. But I am living proof that I was wrong, and that success is possible.
At the time, I had been an undergraduate student at university trying to complete my bachelor’s degree, with a double-major in physics and physical sciences. A lot of my posts were about how worried I was that I wasn’t going to pass my classes, and how I was running out of money, and how I was so tired of being stressed out and failing to meet my family’s expectations that I wanted nothing more than to just lay down and wait to die.
But something amazing happened. I graduated.
After years of sleeping for 3-4 hours a night and eating one meal a day, of doing nothing but study and work, of following every exam with shots and sleeping for the rest of the day, I passed all of my classes this semester and I was awarded my degree. But it wasn’t the cake walk that a lot of people think it is. “Oh, he’s a physics major, he must be some sort of perfect genius,” people will think. HA! NO! I’ve failed more math classes than most people have to take in their entire college career.
You want to know how I got though it all? PERSERVERANCE.
Most people would have considered changing their major after they failed Calculus II. Most people would have changed their major after they failed Differential Equations. Any sane person would have given up and gone home after they failed Differential equations a second time. Whoever was left after that probably would have just given up on life after they failed Electronics twice. But not me. I grabbed life by the throat and I said “F@!$ YOU, I AM GETTING A PHYSICS DEGREE!!!!”
And you know what? I did.
The moral of the story is that you don’t need to be a genius to do well in school. You just need to keep trying. Find something you are passionate about and throw yourself into it and never give up. There will be setbacks along the way, yes. An ordinary man will encounter a problem and quit. A great man will encounter a problem, make mistakes, pick himself up, learn from them, and ultimately conquer.