Memoir

Hi, my name is Lawrence, and I am a senior at General Pantaleon Senior High School. Let me just tell you that being a student in today’s society is not always easy. Adults often tell us that we don’t know what stress is and to just wait until we grow up. But we as teenage students have our own levels of stress. For instance, all school activities require you to uphold your grade point average to high standards, along with the expectations that you dedicate any extra time to it day and night. Going through something like that makes you vulnerable to being bullied. These are students
who are constantly trying to hide in the background, feeling judged and ridiculed in a
place where they should be accepted.

Each of us has a choice on how to accept these challenges in his or her life, and for that, I choose my faith. My point is, it is a whole lot more stressful to be a student in high school than adults believe. Though it shouldn’t be this way, it only gets worse as years pass by. And we are constantly being judged, especially for what we believe in. So our “stress” may not involve paying bills, buying groceries, or taking care of a family, but I’m sure if the adults in our lives could go back to school today, they would be surprised at how much it has changed.

I don’t want you to think for a minute that there aren’t good moments and memories made while we are students. We find our friends, our mentors and, if we are lucky, ourselves!. I want to remind everyone, including myself, that at this moment, we are as old as we have ever been, and as young as we will be again. Live in the moment! If this was your last moment, would you be able to say you were living? I want to be able to say yes. So that’s what I am trying to do learning as I go, wearing faith as my armor, and knowing that in God’s plan we are all students and teachers, too.

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