Find something to keep you going

To me, the hardest thing to find is motivation. My dad likes to tell me that potential is nothing if you don't have motivation. You need something to keep you going. Some people just naturally have the tenacity to continue to fight till the end no matter what. Like my mother. I, on the other hand, have a bit of a problem when it comes to attention span. Boredom is my worst enemy and music and writing are my only vices. The only way to survive life and everything that comes with it is by finding something that you can look forward to and sticking to it. Especially with school, where you can become drowned in your stress, it's good to have something to keep you going. If you don't, you can go insane with anxiety, or just stop caring altogether and become complacent. That's one of the worst things that can happen, being satisfied with being mediocre. You should always strive for more, even though it's really hard. Always have that dream in the back of your mind that will keep you on your toes. For me, my dream is me standing in front of a crowd with a microphone in myhand, and my words from my heart on the tip of my tongue as I sing it out. That's what I think about when I don't want to do physics homework, or I want to fall asleep in Global (sorry Mr. Baggs,don't take it personally).
Everyone should have one. I just think about it and my skin comes alive and my heart is rejuvenated. That's my something that keeps me going.

The exception

Fake people are everywhere. I used to wonder what being fake meant. Did that mean that you were made synthetic or something? As I grew older and met new people, though, it was an inevitable fact that I was faced with people who aren't genuine. People who will plaster a smile on their face when they're around you but once you leave their mouth is full of all the flaws they notice. It's an unfortunate part of life. You can't have everyone like you. If you revolve your life around pleasing everybody, in the end you won't be pleasing anybody, especially yourself. It's normal to want to fit in. I spent my entire middle school year in that stage. Everybody wants to be popular and cool once in their lifetime. Eventually, though, you realize there's more to life than being able to boast that you're the name in everyone's mouth, or how many facebook friends you have. You need to accept you for you, and that's what high school is all about. It's about discovering who you are and being proud of it. I've been in the place where you have this false image of yourself that in the back of your mind you know you'll never live up to, but for some reason you still strive to be it. It's hard to get out of there, trust me. When you do, though, you'll realize how fake and ubiquitous the majority of people are. Everybody follows the trend like a herd of sheep just so they can have something in common with everybody else. Like my dad says, "you have to be the exception". Find yourself and learn to love you. Eventually you'll stop caring about what other people have to say. You'll know when your being consumed by peer pressure and when your not being yourself, and find the people you can really be friends with, the ones that don't make you think twice about what you say in fear of harsh judgment. Like Audio slave sings," To be yourself is all that you can be".