The Pressure of Becoming Successful
One thing that scares me and its something i always think about this days of my life being a teenager is the idea of not becoming succesful in the future. As teenagers , people always ask us what we want to do in life , what career we want, or what kind of future we imagine for ourselves. Sometimes it feels like we are expected to already have everything figured out, even when most of us are still trying to understand who we are.
I think one of the biggest fears is working hard and still not reaching the goals you wanted. School, grades , pressure, and expectations can make our future feel stressful instead of exciting . Social media also i think its making this worse because it constantly make me see succesful people , expensive lifestyles and perfect lives. After a while , it feels like succes is something you must achieve quickly or something we defined for our selves and what we think it is succes.
What makes it harder is that succes means different things for different people , but society usually only shows one version of it like money ,status and achievements but that shoudnt be because we are the ones who defined succes for our lifes and for what we want for ourselves in the futrure . Many teenagers like us grow up feeling afraid of failing before they even start their adult life. Sometimes or most of the time i worry about whether my effort will really be enough in the future. But i also think nobody truly has life figured out yet we’re too young , even if they look confident from the outside.
Maybe by the time we grow up is the way we learn that fear will always exist because continuing anyway is what really matters. And maybe succes is not about becoming perfect , but about building a life for ourselves that actually makes feel happy and proud of yourself thats what really matters.