I don’t have enough time.” This was my standard response to every social invitation as a stressed-out freshman in high school. My social life got thrown on the back burner, and so too did my happiness. Leaderboard 2I failed to see that my academic life and my social life weren’t completely separate entities, but two sides of the same coin — they genuinely bolstered each other. It seemed to remind me of my limited time in this world and emphasized the important things in life: friends, family and a walk in the neighborhood. I changed the narrative from, “I can’t” to “I can” and the world hardly resisted.

Source: Daily Sun December 01, 2021 22:51 UTC