Adolescence

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Adolescence

Have you ever found yourself so tired and fell asleep just the in the public studying room then suddenly woken with great horror that much work is still left? Have you ever dreamed of going to a café with friends in the weekend spending a pleasant afternoon there freely and happily or go to climb mountains and go boating, breathing the honey smell of fresh air in the countryside and enjoying the colorful sunshine of the golden April ; yet seldom make those beautiful dreams true simply because there are so many assignments you will have to finish, so many responsibility you will have to fulfill. Have you been tired of seeing in the campus the identical stony appearance, depressed faces and hurry steps?

Why, I can't help to ask, do we live in such a hurry and pressure? Why are we deprived of the chance to enjoy the precious time gold has specially given to us? We should have been free as we like to read books that has nothing to do with our major or our future vocation, where our focus of reading is not how could we benefit from the books but the belief that we can just enjoy the feeling of reading or more exactly, reading itself as a process under the guide of the former philosophers and writers. We should be entitled to write a poem of our own spirit in the silent night or make a special Christmas card to our best friend who lives far away instead of writing the senseless issues, solving boring math problems, preparing for endless presentations and dramas?

It's our right to savor each segment of our education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparations for the next step. It is our right to experiment , to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world. It is our right to schedule our time in a way we like it be and do what we love to, enjoying the sun-shining days yet knowing the significance of our life to ourselves and to others and never letting a minute slip from in...

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