Have Fun In Life

Growing up is not always fun. It's confusing, scary, stressful and I think one of the things that made growing up fun was not knowing and doing new things. So getting to do it all for the first time in life. Like the first time you go to school, the first school dance, the first time you play a sport or the first time you talk to somebody in a romantic way. All of those firsts come together to make who you are as a person later on, because those positive experiences help you grow, change, learn new things and learn things about yourself too. I actually do think that one of the hardest parts about growing up is that all of the things that you experience that are bad or negative it is your first time. So it's your first time having a breakup, it's your first time having a big fight with a family member or a friend or it's your first time failing a test, it's a first time trying out for something and not succeeding. So those experiences make the bad things in my life right now not as bad but when you're growing up, those bad things feel way worse than they actually are. It's hard as young people to pick through all of the information you're given to keep yourself safe healthy, happy, mentally well and I do think it's harder for you guys to pick through that information and know that this is good for me and this is bad for me because when I grew up we didn't have social media, we didn't have Google, we didn't have all the stuff. I relied on my doctor, my family and my friends and so I only have three sources of information that people were giving me to keep me happy and healthy and now I think it's great that you guys have so much more but it's almost too much information. Everywhere you look you can find negative reasons for this and negative reasons for this and it becomes really confusing for people. My best life advice is to have as much fun as you can in a healthy and safe way. So would it have been okay to get a B in my calculus course and go out and have some fun with friends or did it benefit me to get the A and stay home and not see people. So there's trade-offs and sometimes I aired on the side of being safe and making sure I was doing the right thing. If I could go back in time, I would have had more fun, I would have taken more chances to have more fun, trying new things but I do think that the fear of that made me hesitant. So the fear kept me from doing some fun things.