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India R ecently, I’ve been thinking a lot about my future and my goals like many have during this Life Live pandemic. Most of us can’t wait to A number of years ago, my music get about the burdens I carry. If there get out there and start living again teacher and I were talking about life in is an instance where something does after Covid19 stops wreaking havoc general. He talked about the number go wrong, I stop and ask myself the on people’s lives. This entire situation of jobs and adventures he had and question “Will this be important to me has made us realize that we need to how he was completely stress-free in five years?” Bringing myself to think live every second to the most. But about all of it. Then, a couple of weeks about the effects of the unwanted sitfor some, it will take a little more than ago, my friend said something that uation allows me to keep my priorities a pandemic to live like they want to. really stuck with me. She said “live in check and move on. Under the influence of the people life”. I don’t know why, but this phrase around us, teens get peer pressured gave me a completely new perspecWe are still in our youth, after all. We into liking or disliking something, to tive about everything around us. Many can do whatever we want with our creating or breaking relationships with teens burden themselves with past time. There is no point in spending others. Just the way we live can be memories or future worries, unable our hours doing something that does completely turned around by someto relieve these stresses. Whether it’s not make us happy. We just need to one who should not or does not have being nervous about an upcoming live our life to the fullest. Most of us a valid opinion. test or having an argument with a are only starting our journey. Instead friend, we really are experts in bringof worrying about our daily struggles, Based on social norms and the staning ourselves down. Instead of that, we should be excited about what our dards held in our society, we tend to we should be enjoying our lives and future has to offer. Remember our do things that make us miserable. For forget about the things that are not fears prevent us from growing. Workexample, in my community, students important. ing on what we want to, being who take extremely hard courses and we want to be, and living life how we come out of high school with a 4.5 A technique to completely de-stress is want should be our goal. I am writing GPA and anxiety. Meeting the goals of to start every day with a deep breath this article in the hope to inspire you everyone around is not worth menand a clean slate. I do this to not think to look at the world differently as I do. tal illnesses and late nights of work about the issues holding me back To help you love life, be happy and with no sleep. As I said in one of my from having a good day and being “live life”. previous articles, the hardest thing we motivated to complete all the tasks need to achieve is acceptance. Not I have planned. Every single day is acceptance by others, but accepan opportunity to do things we love. tance by ourselves, including our I look at every day as if it’s a new Hitha.me goals and whatever future we want and have planned. After all, we are chapter so that I can live it to the best, filling my hours with experiences that I Social: @OfficialHitha our hardest critiques. enjoy and moments that make me for