If I could have any superpower, I would want to control time. Not super speed or mind reading. Just time. How lame, right?
I’m in deep. Really deep, and the only thing that could save me is a superpower. There’s nothing to grab on to, but I still try to get out of the hole. And eventually I can see daylight. But the second I get close, someone throws in more dirt, and I’m buried again. (Repeat this process… again… and again…). This is my life. And I know I’m not alone.
Being a teenager is a lot like being buried in a hole. The dirt can be anything. From homework, to friends, or anything that brings you down and makes you feel swamped. But this is true for anyone. Anyone in high school at least. It’s just so stressful! Trying to balance school with friends and family. Add lack of sleep to the mix, and what do you have? That’s right. Every teenager.
We’re all the same. Trying to fit in and feeling entirely awkward while doing it. Struggling to squeeze everything and everyone into our hectic lives. That’s just how it is for us.
It never ends. We can never climb out of the hole. Not unless Superman swept down and scooped us up. I need a superhero.
And there it is. The reason I want to control time.
I could stop the clock and just… relax. Just breathe again and feel free. Not worrying about everything I have to do tomorrow. I could make time for myself. Literally.
But I can’t. No matter what I do, my fiction comes back to reality. The reality where time can’t be controlled, and I can’t just relax.
So what are we supposed to do? Give up and be miserable for the best part of our youth? No. We have to create our own reality, and sometimes we just have to stop and take a break from our lives. Seriously… when was the last time you really thought about yourself and did what you wanted to do?
Time stops for no one, but we can’t let time, or lack of it, stop us.
By SARAH TUCCI
