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I'm sad, can I just rant?

  • 31-05-2012 8:15pm
    #1
    Eathrin
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    Hi all, I'm a Leaving Cert student, exams next week. I've got a number of things on my mind and I just need to let them out, whether it be by talking to a person or posting in PI. To be honest I don't know anybody like me so finding the right person to talk to can be a difficulty.

    I have regular moodswings. In the company of the right people I can be having a blast, some days it seems everything is going wrong for me. I take Prozac for this reason, I feel I'm better off with them but I'm not sure of their overall effect.

    I've never had a relationship with someone, know few girls in the first place. I've less friends too than I would have had a few years ago. Basically I have a shíte social life and that's not down to lack of willingness, I'd consider myself to be quite friendly. It's awful thinking on what I've missed out on as a teenager. Oh yeah and one of my best friends is now gone for 3 months to Canada tomorrow.

    School ended today, awfully sad knowing I'll never speak to half the people I knew there again. I had some fantastic teachers I was very fond of that I won't chat with again and had some great craic with my classmates. The school was my home for 6 years, leaving is very hard.

    The whole Leaving Cert thing is getting into my had now. I'm going to admit to you now that I haven't done a tad since about 2nd year. Yet everything I've done in school for the last 14 years is to be summarised in these exams I start next week. What's worse is I should be getting the full 600 points, but I don't think I will. I'll hate myself for that. Why can't I just live up to my potential? I'm so ambitious, yet I don't try hard enough.

    What do I even do with my future? I love maths, I love physics, I love Irish, I love English. I would love to be a teacher, an engineer, a musician, a statistician, a lecturer, a journalist, an author, a sportsperson, a politician etc. Etc. I don't want to limit myself to just one thing. I can do anything, why must I choose? There's obvious advantages and disadvantages to each and every one of them.

    There's so much more I could talk about, but I'll limit myself for the moment.


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  • #2
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    Eathrin wrote: »
    I've never had a relationship with someone, know few girls in the first place. I've less friends too than I would have had a few years ago. Basically I have a shíte social life and that's not down to lack of willingness, I'd consider myself to be quite friendly. It's awful thinking on what I've missed out on as a teenager. Oh yeah and one of my best friends is now gone for 3 months to Canada tomorrow.

    Dont be worrying about what you might have missed out on, look forward at whats ahead, if you go to college or travel it will be the best time of your life. My teen years were pretty awkward but I had a ball in my 20s.
    Eathrin wrote: »
    School ended today, awfully sad knowing I'll never speak to half the people I knew there again. I had some fantastic teachers I was very fond of that I won't chat with again and had some great craic with my classmates. The school was my home for 6 years, leaving is very hard.

    Yeah it is hard. But you will see people again, and you will meet new people. I just had a school reunion recently, it was great craic seeing people again. But you make lots of friends in the years ahead of you. The transition can be hard though.
    Eathrin wrote: »
    The whole Leaving Cert thing is getting into my had now. I'm going to admit to you now that I haven't done a tad since about 2nd year. Yet everything I've done in school for the last 14 years is to be summarised in these exams I start next week. What's worse is I should be getting the full 600 points, but I don't think I will. I'll hate myself for that. Why can't I just live up to my potential? I'm so ambitious, yet I don't try hard enough.

    I have always felt like you. I could do better if I really tried. But you know what, I do as I do. The LC is not the be all and end all of life as we know it and there is horrible pressure on it. Try to remember that there is life after LC and life where the exams/grading are not on such an archaic system.
    Eathrin wrote: »
    What do I even do with my future? I love maths, I love physics, I love Irish, I love English. I would love to be a teacher, an engineer, a musician, a statistician, a lecturer, a journalist, an author, a sportsperson, a politician etc. Etc. I don't want to limit myself to just one thing. I can do anything, why must I choose? There's obvious advantages and disadvantages to each and every one of them.

    Yeah its too early to decide. So just do something you like doing for now. What you really want to do will come later. I did a science degree. Then 12 years later I got sick of it. Now Im almost finished another degree in humanities, but I also got interested in yet another science subject so Im doing that on the side too. You can always do new things,no matter what age you are. Just try to do something that gives you a bit of joy, everything is easier if you are interested in it.
    Eathrin wrote: »
    There's so much more I could talk about, but I'll limit myself for the moment.

    Theres no doubt about it, you are going through a hard time right now. It is a hard time, and many people feel some of the things that you feel. But the thing to remember is that this is just a transitional period and change is always hard, in a few months there will be a shake up and then things will all settle down again for another while and meanwhile there will be new experiences and new people to meet along the way.

    Take care and best of luck in your exams.


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