AN OPEN LETTER TO YOUNGER STUDENTS
By Alice Do you ever wish you could travel back in time? Unfortunately, life is a twisting, turning, undulating road, that you can never see the end of - until the end. It is full of boulders ready to jump onto the road and littered with trees scattered across. Yet, we are not meant to know how to get around these. There is no manual, no instruction book, nothing. In this letter, I will tell you about what you should do to avoid these trees and boulders in advance. This is the first lesson that I wish I had learnt sooner. Procrastination is your enemy. At the time, putting off some of your homework may feel like an excellent idea. But that boulder will come back bigger. This boulder will shatter the road and make getting around it much harder. I do not recommend putting your homework off until the day it is due. Your stress levels will rocket and staying up until two in the morning is not healthy. There are many tips to getting over procrastination. This is mine. Tell yourself you are only doing something for two minutes. Your brain will not associate these two minutes with pain. When the two minutes has ended, you may find yourself in a workflow state, where you want to complete the task. If you still do not want to do the task, break it into smaller ones and reward yourself when you have completed these tasks. Never trust anyone. I wish I could have told myself that earlier. You never know of someone’s true intentions and by trusting them, you are opening yourself to their intentions. By not trusting anyone, you will force yourself to be more independent, both mentally, emotionally and financially. Sometimes secrets feel better to tell someone but “a secret shared is a secret no more”. Trusting someone is a huge risk. There is always the prospect of betrayal. Betrayals can lead to mental disorders, emotional pains and a sense of dejection. There will always be someone that hurts you, and by not fully trusting them, the pain will not be as bad, than if you had trusted them.
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THE CHRONICLE
2021/2022
