This is my last story for the newspaper this school year, and to be honest I had no idea what to write about. If I’m going to be honest again, I have been pushing off so much school work for the past couple weeks that now I have so much to catch up on. I haven’t felt like doing much. I just want to sit in my room all day, but you know that gets boring sometimes, too. All this work build-up turns into 20 assignments I’m working on at 10:27 at night wishing I was sleeping instead, and then before you know it it’s 1:43 in the morning and I’m finally finished. All I can say is this story won’t be anything interesting or crazy, but it will be truthful. 

All my stories (well most, at least) have been about everyone else’s opinions on things and or how God is always there to help in your struggles. Personally, I need to take my own advice sometimes. I’m not perfect nor is anyone else, yet we all try so hard to be perfect or better than someone else. I’ve been trying really hard for everyone else lately and haven’t done anything for myself. I have been trying to prove myself to people who aren’t even worth proving myself to. In reality, everyone is going to do that, but shortly afterward we figure out it wasn’t worth it. This year has been very hectic, and there are many more to come. Life isn’t easy, people aren’t easy, school isn’t easy, yet at the end of the day it’s all just a moment. My mom said at a youth group a couple weeks ago, “If it’s important in five years, it’s worth five minutes now,” and that really made me think. Everyone is always worried about anything and everything, but really most of those worries aren’t even important enough to worry about. 

There are lots of struggles people go through daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Just because you feel as if your world is falling apart, or there’s no point in being here, just remember: God’s got you, always and forever. I need to tell myself that more often, because lately I have felt like everything is falling apart so I gave up. Now I have to pick all that back up and get back on my feet. Trusting God and His plan, looking at it all through His perspective, will always keep me going.

Like my mom always tells me before I leave for school in the mornings: “Be the head and not the tail. Be a leader and not a follower.”