That's it. This is rock bottom.

I have a friend who is a sophomore.  She barely turned 16; since she was 14, she has wanted to go to Oxford University, and has stressed over grades since 7th grade.  She has a 4.5 GPA or something amazing like that, but she is stressed.  She cries over low A's out of fear that she won't be able to achieve her dreams.

I have a friend who is in the same grade as me.  Her parents are pressuring her to choose a college; but she isn't ready. She wants to enjoy life.  She wants to slow down, to figure things out.  But no: Scholarships come straight out of high school, you're less likely to go to college if you wait a year. And so she cries on my shoulder out of fear of the future, and will make an impulse decision just for the sake of progress.

I have a friend who graduated early. She got a scholarship and went to college and it was the worst year of her life.  She had just learned to drive; she was younger than I am now.  And she started a major in biochemistry and it was too hard and she lost her scholarship at no fault of her own.

The world is broken.
Everyone needs to slow. The hell. Down.

I'm sick of everyone feeling as if the world will fall apart if they don't know what to do with their lives when they first come out of the womb.  Frankly, that's the government's goal: scare us into submission.  Scare us into a "successful" occupation just so that we can earn money to support ourselves, when in reality, they're merely training a workforce to carry on the economy and make this country "great."

America the beautiful everybody.
The land of the free and the home of the stressed, overworked, and depressed.

Every one of these people feels responsible for their "failures" when really, the problem is not with them. The problem is with this "system" that is driving us into debt, drowning us, suffocating us, keeping us from being the people we were truly meant to be.
Stressing us to "live up to our full potential" when we never have the time to discover it.

Retaliate. Go against the grain. They don't define you.