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Dear My Younger Self

I’m finally grown up now, time goes by too fast. Haven’t really enjoyed my young
childhood days. Life is hard, saying we want to grow up when we are young but end

up wanting to be a young cheerful child again as we grow up. As we grow up, stress
increases because of school, worrying about our future, and other things. 24/7

thinking about life and what our purpose is in life. I miss the days where we used to
think that life would be easy and we didn’t really care about what’s gonna happen to
our future life. But now, there was never a day with me not worrying about my

future, worried about what’s gonna happen. Everyday the same question pops up in
my head, “will i be rich in the future?”, “Will I be successful?” , “will I be a mistake in

my family?” Basically questions about life. Anger and sadness will always fill my body
every single day. You (my younger self) and the time should have slowed down in
growing or aging and enjoy cartoons, Nickelodeon like Tom and Jerry shows. What a

very fun memory right there.

As I grew up, I noticed that life became harder and more challenging. There are

many obstacles as they say. School became harder as there was this subject called
physics. Confidence decreases as pretty people occupy social media, we get jealous
easily. Even I became an introvert. Now in this present time I really want to change

my grades which I have done but I only improve in 4 subjects.

Basically the main reason why my grades were bad is because of you. One thing I
don't like about you is that I didn’t really take primary school seriously, I never really
studied. If only I studied properly, my primary report card would not be that bad

and I would be smart in secondary. The only thing I really wanted to change in you is
my grades, I regret not studying and being lazy. My attitude was also tremendous, I
kept on bullying, coming late to classes and was hard-headed. However, that's my

younger self so I can't change the past. But I’m thankful I’m not too late to change it
because I’m already starting to change and I’m fixing my attitude now and also my
grades step by step. Although it might be hard for me to change my studying from

no study at all to studying because I’m that type of person who always
procrastinates but atleast I made an improvement in 4 subjects. I’m now trying to

continue and be motivated by imagining how life would be fun if I get straight A’s.
There’s a lot of other things I want to change in my life but I cannot elaborate and
besides my goal is now only to change my grades.

by Emily Gabriele

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