Juggling School with Life

     juggling school with life

By Buyelani Msweli

School is generally boring for most of us. It is monotonous and a lot of effort is demanded of us every single day. It is true for most of us that we hate school but we don’t hate it really because we can’t as it is almost the only thing we wake up to everyday of most our lives. The reason we actually feel this way about school is that it takes all of the time we could be using for ourselves in terms of self-exploration and having some fun.

The Solution

If we want school to stop being the obstacle to us spending time on ourselves, we must obviously try making more time for ourselves and still keep school as part of our lives. There is plenty number of ways that we can use to achieve this seemingly unachievable goal, but of the diverse group we are, I’ll just make general suggestions that can suite most of us.

Mixing It with School

Sometimes I feel that we are just too picky on everything we do and we sometimes act like there are certain rules that rule our lives that then limit our capabilities. Who said that if we wanted to explore ourselves and do what we are passionate about? We don’t need to be outside of the school environment in order to do the things that we are passionate about; we can just do the things that we are passionate about in the school environment. Most schools offer extra-mural activities and sport activities. We can look into these offered activities with an open mind and try exploring and trying them out; we could find out that we are now interested in doing them as our passions and develop them. If there are no activities that we are able to do or absolutely don’t have any interest in, we could start our own interesting school clubs that focus on the particular thing that we are passionate about and we are lucky that our school promotes these kind of project. Doing this benefits us more than anyone also because these kind of projects because they look good on applications for university enrolment.