Lucas+W’s+OpEd+Article

 Sometimes I just feel empty, like a void, and endless internal void. Once I get home from school, I walk into my room, drop my backpack, and lay on my bed. Then I lay there, and lay there, devoid of everything. I feel stale, like a grey wall with chipping paint that reveals just another coat of monotonous grey. Everything I care about becomes a chore, I lose interest in everything. I just lay motionless, forlorn and forgotten. Unable to even decide whether or not I like being forgotten, left alone to my thoughts, or if it’s just painful. Maybe its just an emotional growing pain, but I don’t feel any older, and wiser, I just feel dried up. I don’t even enjoy doing well in school, I just hate doing poorly, and I hate having to make decisions under the thumb of my parents, they may know what's best for me, but I don’t want whats best, I want what is for Lucas, and I’m the only one who can find that.

 Everyone who seems to care about their grades, their test scores, are groping at pipe dreams, looking for their quick fix. Like it really matters what grades you have in high school, anyone can make money if their ruthless, cold blooded and hungry. Students who stress over school are missing the point, Harvard, Standford, they don’t exist, there is no place where you can go that will grant you happiness like the university of your dreams will. The Stanford of reality is just a university you’ll go to watch rich kids get what they want while floating on by. At best it will secure your financial welfare for a few years, but don’t be naive, the cash will be exciting at first, but its not your golden ticket to your life's dreams and aspirations.There is no quick fix, no happy life graduation, only a huddle of masses following each other with no one truly in control.