FriLife: Pressures & Happiness

I think we might as well change this to a SatLife rather than FriLife because I always seem to post on a Saturday. Anyway so I currently am being incredibly good with not procrastinating. If you're reading this now and applauding because you honestly don't know how to not procrastinate, I feel you. I don't really have the secret of how to not to procrastinate, it's just magically happening for me. (Yay for while it lasts!)

So I just went down to the local supermarket to hand in my resume I'm thinking about the future. And currently all the teachers at our school ever do is rabbit on about our HSC (those are the final exams we do in Australia and the mark you get basically decides your future, so no pressure or anything) so a the moment it's rather hard to get away from the thought of our future. 

How do I deal with this? Well between doing a sh*t load of study, saying that my band and I better make it because my future isn't going anywhere at all and contemplating what my parents would do if I dropped out of school, I generally try to run away from it. (Great plan, I know).

Now there is a point to writing this blog post. I'm not about to tell you that you should live one day at a time and #YOLO and everything. But seriously... (I'm kidding).

I'm saying that at the moment I have less time for friends, a whole lot more pressures (which I have no idea how to deal with) and a realization that for anyone's future, they kind of need money to do it. So all of  that's depressing. And not fun. And the general things that I try to avoid. Also I get very little sleep these days, so I can't concentrate to well anymore.

But through all of this I'm trying to keep happy (I feel like that's more important that ever) so I'm trying to do the things I really enjoy. I wanted to share this with you lot because I reckon there's going to be a point in your life (if there's only one point ever, then I think you're lucky) that you're stressed, or down or generally thinking bad things and I want you to be able to fall back on things that you love. Things that bring a smile to your face while doing them. And while having less time for what I love to do, I realized that I don't exactly entirely know what that is. I mean in surveys it says "interests" and about a third of a page to fill up and I'm sitting there thinking 'uh, well sleeping.*Writes this down.* I'm interested in surviving... um... Hey what am I actually interested in?'

So I want you to know what you love. And try to do it once a week. I don't care whether it's youtubers or sport. Make it something that you can do easily. And smile when you do it. Because seriously, you're going to need it.

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