Fourteen is the calm wind before the raging storm of responsibilities. It’s the time you start forming into the person you will be for the rest of your life… every decision you make leads to a path of success, or failure. Your life is getting less peaceful and calming, but more intense and purposeful. Everywhere you look there is a new opportunity waiting for you, the hardest part about those opportunities is having to chose the ones you take, and the ones you leave behind,
Fourteen is working hard at the little things that can impact your whole life. Living your everyday life turns into a video game and you just want to survive; only to get to a harder level. Every chance that you can get to wish is a wish for a good future, …show more content…
You live your day while the future you watches you through their memories that they cling onto to keep the youth you take for granted. Staying up late isn’t rare anymore, but is now your nightly routine. You find yourself exhausted even when you get eight to nine hours. School and friends now take over your life, giving you only a portion of the freetime you used to privilege as a younger kid.
Fourteen is laying down and listening to music to help you escape reality as much as you can. The songs that you listen to act as a controller of time, and you chose whether they make time slow down or speed up. You can collect countless hours of just you laying alone accompanied by the things in your mind that you wish to block out.
Fourteen is living day by day pushing through each week only to tell yourself the same thing every Monday, “Friday isn’t that far away, just go through this week”. You want time to speed up but when it does it goes too fast and you just want to go back to your younger self, the one that didn’t care about other people's opinion. Precision and accuracy is what you strive for in everything you do but after a while, you see how impossible that is, and settle for a average