A simple English project on what the purpose of life is, brings eight completely different students a lot more than what they expected to be a one time thing.
See, everybody has their issues. Everybody is fighting their own battles, and so you should never judge. Highschool is meant for mistakes, but that's why you need to have friends. Friends are there, to hold your hand, and accompany you throughout the mistakes of highschool. Because, if you have good friends, you have memories, and if you have good people surrounding you, highschool won't change, or disappear, or fast forward, but, it will be just a little but better. Because with friends, struggles, and problems, and life itself, becomes just a bit better. It becomes just a bit easier. Because, people are way beyond the labels highschool give them. Labels don't describe them. Who they are, is what describes them.
'And, indeed, after hardship, comes ease.'
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The teenage period is usually not always easy. You make mistakes, you learn from them. It's like a moulding phase towards adulthood, which tends to be harder than adults make it sound. Especially in this generation.
Growing up in a society where having a psychological condition means you're a freak, abnormal or an attention seeker. Where gender inequality is still seen as normal and right. Where anything other than Heterosexuality means you're possessed or the spawn of the devil. Where showing your emotions as a guy means you're soft and weak, because toxic masculinity isn't seen as a problem. Also, having anything to do that's related to these "atrocities" means you're set for an even bigger social stigma. Being a teenager becomes harder than hard.
Just a group of teenagers trying to find a place for themselves in midst of a backward society, realising that life can't be all black and white.
Growing in an African home is hard but what's harder is being a Nigerian. O le gán.
"It is better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not."
-André Gide