it’s hard being a student.
It’s hard being a student when emotionally, your life outside of the classroom seems like it’s being torn to bits.
It’s hard being a student when you feel like you’re the most lonely person on the planet and like no one will ever understand you or even love you enough to tolerate all of your baggage.
It’s hard being a student when you cry a lot of the time. Because the tears get in the way of your vision and the heartache gets in the way of your focus, and no one should ever have to cry and study for a midterm or write a research paper all at the same time.
It’s hard being a student when your family doesn’t understand. Anything. At all.
It’s hard being a student when you’re also a person, a real life breathing human being who needs things like food and water and social interaction and maybe a little bit of love to survive healthily.
It’s hard being a student when you want other things so bad.
It’s hard being a student when it all gets too much and too overwhelming to handle and all of the unfinished check boxes of you planner won’t stop reminding you that you have to get this done or else you’ll absolutely fail and die.
It’s hard being a student when you’re just so tired. of everything.
It’s hard being a student. I know it is. Because I feel it. All the time.
But you’ve come this far. And I hope you can learn to be a little more gentle on yourself. And I hope you remember one day your hard work might just pay off for a life you’ve deserved. One day the pain will go away.
But I need you to keep going. I need you to stay in this world and fight today.
Because being a student is hard. But the pain of giving up a whole lot of hope and dreams is harder.
