Overpreparing to be Underprepared
(Sidenote: I was NOT expecting to see this website after junior year lol) “Look at your core values.” “Reflect on what has been a defining factor of your life.” “Choose epiphanies that have changed you as a person.” This week, and most of this summer, I’ve felt like my own personal lab rat. Reflecting on what kind of person I am as a reader, and later what have I done to change the type of person I am in general, is hard to do when the hardest decision I’ve made this week, and probably in my life, has been “Am I sick enough to miss school?” Usually I tell myself no and regret it, but when I tell myself yes I’m brought to tears. In the last three weeks of school, I’ve missed certain hours and certain days, but every time I cry. I cry because I know how much work I’m going to have to make up, not seeing friends, missing notes, and feeling ill at all. But most of all, I cry because I can’t control it. Throughout my life, another large decision of my life has been to keep a planner....