Student says life is hard, but promises to play nice

by Connie Whiteley
Managing editor

Student says life is hard, but promises to play niceLife is hard. Well, okay not really, but life sure can get stressful, especially all the little everyday inconveniences, like having to go around the block because the road is blocked off.

For the past two months all I have been having is one bad day after another, or at least that is what I feel like. I wake up in the morning wanting to sing a happy tune, but by night I am ready to stick that happy song down the throat of the next person that even looks at me. I cheerfully come to school and go to classes. Sometimes I get stressed out by my classes, but usually I am able to make a game plan and calm down.

I guess the problem mainly is, I am surround by idiots. OK. not really, but I am having too many bad days. Please stop.

I don't know if I am not handling the stress very well -- actually I know I am not -- or if I am just noticing the little everyday aggravating matters. I don't know what changed, but since this year began, all I seem to have are bad days. The fact that I am having bad days is not what is importan -- what is important is that I am taking my stress out on the people around.

I yell -- a lot and loudly -- yes, I yell. Take for example the other day my mom kept grating on my nerves, so when my sister comes over to help me fill out some paperwork, I yelled at her when she couldn't find some information right in front of her. If I am not yelling, though, I am probably being unpleasant in other ways, such as just being nasty to everyone around me, or I give people dirty looks, and so on.

Maybe my problem is not even the stress, maybe the problem is that I am simply being to sensitive. Instead of taking every little annoying problem and letting it get me down, I need to squash the seed of stress the moment it starts to sprout.

No, wait, I was right before, life is unhappy with me. I am not stressed, or too sensitive to the crap that has been happening to me -- life is out to get me, and it's using the people around to get to me. That's right, I figured out what is behind all the bad days, life doesn't want to be happy. All the bad days I have been having is one big conspiracy.

But no more, from this day forth, life will no longer have a chance to get at me. Go ahead, Life, throw all the bad days at me,because my mission now is to become absolutely, positively, the most optimistic, happy person I can be, notice though that I said I can be. Because, let's face the truth of me, I am never going to ooze bright, shiny-person aura. So, Life, I promise to play nice from now on, but only if you promise to play nice too. That is a workable agreement to me.