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Worries of Youth

April 16, 2021
By Anonymous

Is it raining outside today? Or is it sunny?

Let me check my phone.

Nevermind, I really don't care either way.

I don’t have time to enjoy the weather anymore, I'm too busy.

Everything is go go go, or slow slow slow.

Life was a breeze when I was younger, but now I'm older.

I'm 18, but it doesn't feel like I'm 18.

I feel like I'm 9, I've only been alive like 9 years.

Why is so much expected of me? What's that all about.

It's a shame, I have to go to college soon and get a job.

Can’t I catch a break? That’s gonna be a lot of stress, and I already feel burned out.

I don’t have the same motivation I used too, I guess everyone feels this way, but I’ll put the blame on covid.


They say time flies when you’re having fun.

Except I don’t think I’ve been having that much fun though lol, I’ll just be time skipping. 

I’ll sit down to do schoolwork at like 2 o’clock and then I check my phone, get something to eat, stare at my computer screen, then BOOM, 6 hours will go by, and then day is over.

What did I do today? I don’t remember it was kind of a blur.

If I live until im 70, then that means i'll have 52 years left to live, that seems like a decent amount of time right? Wrong.

Apparently, we spend a third of our lives sleeping, and will spend around 7 years looking at our phones, and who knows maybe you'll go to bed one night and wake up old. yikes

Ok ok ok ok ok


I guess it sounds like I'm complaining, but really I am just stressing.

I am always stressing and worry about things, things that aren’t even relevant, but I think that it's because you only live once

You gotta spend your time wisely, and try to live with no regrets, but at this point in my life I have to make a lot of big decisions it feels like, and I am not ready for all the changes.



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