Life can sometimes feel like you are on a treadmill, and you can´t stop.
It was the last week before vacations and I was making a meticulous list of all the assignments to had to complete. As I sorted out my classes in my head, grades popped in. What if I didn't get the grades that I wanted to get a 6 or 7 in all my classes. I NEEDED to get good grades to get to the college I wanted, a college that would look fitting to a successful job. That way I could be triumphant, because I wouldn't need anything and I could have my own family. That same week I stayed up late until I couldn't hold my eyes open for more than five seconds all because I was perfectioning projects. Being on the “treadmill” is just like that… Your head can´t stop thinking and you keep studying. Your heart doesn't stop beating and you keep running. You keep studying and competing just to get the best grades. You keep running and competing to win the race. You're waiting to reach success and finally get the life you wanted. You're waiting for the next mile and finally finish the race the way you wanted. Are you in this “treadmill” because you want to reach success OR because you won´t be fulfilled and actually be genuinely happy? Most people would start to question their motives after reading this. The problem is that you are always striving for the “next mile” which is never going to end or once you reach it there is one more mile to go. Just like school, you study to get high grades, but really don't learn anything because you study it for your test ➔ to get to a good university ➔ to get a superior job ➔ to have a maintained family. You never stop working until you are about 60 years and perhaps you retire, but the treadmill is an addiction, and it turned into a routine. You keep running but your heart and feet can't keep up and well, you die, but you weren't actually happy, because you were waiting to reach your goal or happiness but there was always one more mile to go. Stop running away from problems and pressures that are CHASING YOU because you are in a stationary position and won't be able to get away from them. But get off the “treadmill” and start running by yourself to CHASE YOUR GOAL and do something you're passionate about at the same time because then you are not fulfilled until you reach your target. Being on a treadmill doesn't mean that you are constantly working, it means that you are doing something that you dislike just to get the favorable outcome or what other people expected of you. If it's your passion you are constantly working on, it's okay because you would be doing something that makes you be happy not for a short period of time but actually being happy not feeling happy.
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Bon
8/31/2015 04:09:31 am
Cristina, the treadmill's worst characteristic is that it leads you nowhere. You're stuck in the same spot. You mention how fulfillment can help you get off it. But this is my question: how do you obtain fulfillment? Is it as simple as just finding something you love doing? Is that enough for us to get off the treadmill? Dig.
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Rafael dasso
9/21/2015 08:42:48 pm
Cristina, I really like your blog post and I could make lots of connections to it. I like how you talk about what Mr. Bon commented with us and really brainstormed about it, because I did it to. Your structure is made so the readers are engaged.
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Cristina BarclayCurrent eleventh grader at Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt, taking the IB diploma program. Archives
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