Bryce Despain - Simplifying

Sometimes in life, people put themselves up to more than what they can handle at times. When that happens to someone it is hard to decide what is more important to them and what they should focus on. Personally, it isn't what I put myself up to, it is specifically what was dragging me down, and that I had way too much going on in my life at the time.

I know that this may seem harsh when I say it, but I put myself up to taking all college classes while in high school. I know that it might not seem like anything big, but in the high school college classes, we are always constantly doing work. When you have 4 college classes, all that work eventually adds up on top of each other and you have to focus on it and manage your time wisely in order to do good and succeed in those classes. When I first started to do college classes I had to simplify many things because I was so overwhelmed with the amount of work I had to do and was expected to do. One of the many things that I had to simplify was hanging out with my close friends. What I mean by that is that I had to choose between focusing on my school work and hanging out with my friends. To some people, that decision comes easy, some would say that their friends are more important to them rather than their own education. For example, at the time both were equally important to me. However, I then realized that you can always get more friends in life, but you can never get another opportunity to take free college classes while you are still in high school. Sadly, I had to give up hanging out with my friends because my education was more important to me at the moment, and it still is to this day. Ever since I started to focus on my school work more, my life has changed for the better. This is mainly because I don't have a lot going on now, besides all of the school work that I constantly have to do in order to have a good future. However, I will say this, if I ever have any free time away from school work, I'm always down to hang out with my friends, they just have to catch me at the right time and moment. I might have lost some friends in the process of deciding what was best for me and my future, but I can always make new ones, as bad and sad as that sounds.

At first, I was sad because I did lose a lot of my friends that I had been friends with all my life. However, I soon realized that if they stop being your friend just because you decided that your education was more important to you then them, then they aren't your friends at all. A good friend would understand if you wanted to focus on your future and your education.