It's a Juggling Act

I've really been thinking tons about school lately. Now that first semester of my sophomore year is over and finals are gone, I've got a short period to just chill without having to worry about my schoolwork, and it's amazing. As second semester approaches, I give some thought to how I want to do in this next semester. I tell myself that I'm going to bust my ass on every assignment so that by the time the finals come around I won't even have to worry. But then I wonder, don't I always tell myself that? Somehow I still end up with some borderline grades and have to worry about finals. It puzzles me how that tends to be the ending.

School's a juggling act, with all the subjects to learn and study and then get tested on. There's tons to worry about and if you get lazy and start slacking off in a class, dropping the ball, so to speak, it's tough to get it back up. But that's not even the beginning of the difficulty. I'm really not trying to sound cocky or arrogant or conceited, but I know that if I really wanted to, I could have amazing grades every semester. If I dropped everything else and totally dedicated myself to school, it would be a breeze. How come I don't, if it would make so many people, like my parents and..eh, well just my parents happy? I guess it's cus I believe that lives aren't made in school. I mean you're never going to look back 20 years from now and be like oh yeah! I remember all those great chem lectures, or oh yeah, I'm so glad I did all those quote journals for Much Ado About Nothing! Not really. You can always catch up on your school work but you can't catch up on fun. Same thing goes for sleep too, but that's another story.

The difficulty in school lies not in the juggling, school itself, but in juggling while walking a tightrope. All of the time we pour into hanging out, extracurriculars, and just plain screwing around is all time taken away from our school work, making it even harder to keep juggling the balls. Sometimes when we trip up on the tightrope and drop all the balls, it does indeed seem like our lives are spiraling out of control, but it's always been said that man falls to learn how to pick themselves up again.