stress is an understatement

I have been under so much stress lately. This blog goes out to all the fellow stressed out people. Especially teenagers. For all the responsible teenagers, I do not think we get enough credit. We are at school all day, work part time ( and sometimes end up doing full time), do chores, and make time for friends and family. To most teenagers' parents thats not enough. They think because we are young we have all this energy to burn. We don't! When we get home for a long day packed with school and work, we don't have a chance to kick back and unwind. We get told that we have to do housework and then after we have to do homework and study. Since we are up late studying, sleep is on the back burner. I, like most teenagers, can not remember the last time a night of sleep contained more than 5 hours. I know that sleep keeps the mind healthy and all, but lack of sleep is the only option. I know it is bad when on a friday night I'd rather stay in than go out due to my body being weak. Not only are we physically stressed, we are mentally stressed too! How am I going to pay for this and that, When am I going to find time to the project or study for this test, I'm hungry but do not have time to eat, When is the next time I am going to hang out with my friends or boyfriend are all questions that go running throught my head everyday. I go to mental therapy once a week and still manage to get stressed out. I know I am not the only person. Teenagers go throught the same exact thing. Even adults do with career, bills, kids, student loan debt. I guess we have to run ten times faster than the world just to keep up.

Values

Hello again fellow bloggers!
Yesterday I started my second session of being a member of VITAL. For those of you who do not know, VITAL stand for Vincentian Initiative to Advance Leadership. Its an organization on campus that meets once a month and each year is a session. Yesterday's meeting was the first of the year. The main topic of the meeting was "values." It really made us members take a step back and re-evaluate our lives. I thought it was really helpful. Sometimes we all get wrapped up in our busy schedules and forget what means the most to us. We had to define the term "value." Then we were given bout 5 different colors of paper. Each color had 3 different pieces of paper. Each color represented something else that had value to us. Blue was people, red was hobbies, green was what we liked about ourselves, etc. Then we were read a story. The story was so sad. We had to picture ourselves in the story. To sum up the story.. You are 29 have a great life, totally happy, did everything morally good and physically good, go to the doctors and are told you have throat cancer. the only cure is to have the infected part removed leaving you to never be able to talk again. The story was paused at different part and we had to throw 2 pieces of paper on the floor at each pause. It really made me realize what I value more then others. My last piece of paper was a blue piece which represented at person. If fact, every single member had a blue paper as thier last one. My advice to all you readers is this, take time to think about what you truly value and cherish. Never take advantage of it and never sweat the small stuff.

Unknown to be known

Hey everyone! I'm Raquel. I'm a very private person so this blog thing is very new to me. I titled this blog "unknown to be known." I think that title is perfect for my life. The title has a few meanings . Its where I stand with my life in general. So many unanswered questions. Will I become successful? Am I going to go against what I believe in and actually get married? Am I going to have kids? The title is also how I view people and how people view me. Nobody really knows a person. They are unknown to them; one day, in some cases, they will know them. Sometimes you get to be lucky and get to love that person and have that person love you back. If you are even lucker, you will find somebody to fall IN love with. I'm so happy to say I am one of the lucker people. There are so many things in life that are unknown. Sometimes it's good when they become know and others bad. Well thi is my first of many blogs. like I mentioned earlier, I am a private person, I bet i will warm up and my blogs will get better!!