Stressed out!

Everyone faces stress in their lives. Different people have different stress triggers that can affect them in their daily lifestyles. Some may stress about exams, some about their jobs and some just about ruining another person's life. A decision made in the spur of a moment can easily bring someone down, from happy-go-lucky to a person that no one recognizes- such drastic is that change. Just a simple yes or no or even not saying anything can be deemed as cruel to a person, make them feel like they have been punched countless of times in the stomach until they feel out of breath and in severe pain. Feeling kicked and left to the dust is never a fun nor good way to feel.

Such a person who made that decision like above would definitely be facing stress. Decisions are never easy to make, and knowing that your choice has ruined someone's life just makes it all the more harder. Eventually, everyone would have to go through that phase at least once in their lives, the phase of letting down someone, but that still doesn't make it easier when it actually happens to you.

   Stress can also originate simply from our way of thinking, the perspective from which we view things. More often than not, we bring stress upon ourselves by overthinking things. We have to learn to let things roll off our backs and think of them as minor bumps in the road called life. If we can't overcome these so-called minor bumps, how else are we going to live life as it should be lived? There is no doubt that at a certain point of life, we will be facing a much, much larger 'bump' in that road. It is not so much as a bump rather than a wall that we must overcome. There is no way to put it off but to face it head on. Therefore, we have to always be ready to face whatever challenge we will encounter further on in our lives in order to avoid unwanted stress.

Discipline

Having no discipline in a school makes a school no different from the streets outside. Therefore, disciplinary problems are a problem that should be handled immediately and professionally  from its core so that it can be overcome easily. 

A student's discipline should be heavily guarded by the teachers in school. After all, half of a student's day on a weekday is spent studying in classes. Thus, teachers should apply the saying, a teacher's job is to encourage as well as educate, inform as well as inspire. A teacher's role is crucial in guiding a student towards their goals in life. A teacher should nudge a student back to the correct path in life should they realize that the student is slowly going the wrong way. However, nudging can only be used if the student has not strayed too far from life's path. Once it is too late, forcibly pushing them against their will to return to that path would become too hard of a task to execute.

Parents play a huge role in their child's discipline as well. A sense of security and safety from home can largely affect a student's decision to rebel, because with a background that has been paved so perfectly, who would want to be involved in an action that would ruin their lives? A parent should strive to provide not just a house for their children, but a home, a household that will allow them to raise their kids with ease and discipline. 

All in all, parents and teachers have to work hand-in-hand to guide a student in their early lives, when they are still malleable to changes. Once a child has become an adult, and is able to think maturely for himself or herself, then, and only then, the parents can let go of the reins to let them fend for themselves. 

Motivation = Physics

Potential difference is defined as the work done to move one coulomb of charge from one point to another. Very much like what we learned in Physics, we need our own ‘potential difference’, a form of motivation to successfully complete a given task. Different people have varying motivations that can encourage each and every one of them to be spurred.

One of these mentioned incentives is a pride in doing things well and to gain that sense of accomplishment upon executing a task.  Some people may find great satisfaction on a job well done, which will lead to an invaluable sense of competence.  Choosing good friends also plays a critical role in the lives of teenagers, because teenagers’ hearts are easily influenced by their surroundings. This will push them to do well in their studies because they are often motivated to do as well as their friends in different areas of interests. In fact, behaviours can be considered as highly contagious among students, because we are as vulnerable as sitting ducks.  

Another type of motivation that I personally think is worth trying Is by giving rewards to yourself for completing a task. In my case, I take a lot of breaks while studying to relax my mind in order not to strain my focus. Most of the time it works, but you have to take caution that you don’t relax a little TOO much that you forget the whole purpose of you taking the break in the first place.

These are the motivations that I deem useful to be implemented in your lifestyles to achieve your goals. With these incentives, I'm sure that you can aim higher and reach those stars you couldn't even dream of brushing against in the past. 

Say No To Discrimination!

Discrimination and prejudices have existed since the very start of life, so what is there to say that it doesn't continue till now? There is not even one person in life now who can say with absolute and utmost confidence that they have never been against someone, been prejudiced against that one person in their entire lives at least once. After all, we are not flawless, that is what that makes us humans. Winston Churchill quoted, " You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." However, in the movie ' Freedom Writers', such extreme and obvious examples of discrimination has been portrayed by the society that it tremendously changes the students' lives. Many of them have had their loved ones killed by gang members that their sole goal in life is survival. Surviving beyond the age of eighteen is considered a great achievement in those complicated areas.

The most outrageous injustice that I felt in this movie was the part when the department chair, Margaret Campbell refuses to allow Erin Gruwell, the fresh new teacher, to teach her students with intellectual information. In fact, she is encouraged to educate them about basic discipline to just while away the time. The school has already regarded this particular class of students to be lost cases but Erin throws away that line of thinking and goes beyond her line of duty as a teacher to get them the education and help they needed. Gradually, the racial barriers reduce because of her commendable efforts to get the students to open up to her. The students manage to graduate high school with her guidance, which just goes to show that everyone is given a chance to achieve something great in their lives. It is just a matter of willingness and perseverance whether we get to accomplish that life goal.

There are countless of examples of enmities throughout this movie, and I have yet to start listing out even a quarter of them. I leave that task up to you readers to fill in and give your own thoughts about this inspiring movie that has been based on a true story.