Opinion

Teenage triangle proves conquerable

School. Social life. Sleep. A teenager’s life in a nutshell.

These three things constantly bombard me, and I spend a lot of time just trying to balance them out. I have made school my top priority, while my social life and beloved sleep closely follow. A diagram vaguely known on the Internet as the Teenage Triangle states that a teen may only choose two of the choices, but I beg to differ.

As a teenager, I naturally spend most of my time at school. I am always doing homework or something school related. Sometimes I stress about my work as it builds up to a mountain-like pile of never ending impossibilities, but I make my way around the mountain with the thought of college and my GPA in mind. As long as I manage my time correctly and plan in advance, I keep my grades up, and still stay in the loop with my friends.

Because of school, I do not have much time for a social life, but I try to make time for my friends. Because I spend so much time at school, I include myself in extracurricular activities such as choir as a way to manage my time, but still have somewhat of a social life. Being in choir with the school gives me an easy way to socialize with people that love doing the same thing as me. Almost all of my friends come from choir because of this, so I can easily see my friend’s every day.

At the end of a typical day I nearly fall over from exhaustion, so my sleeping schedule is planned out so I have just enough time for everything. I get as much sleep as I can, although sometimes homework, or a project I forgot to do, consumes my time. Otherwise, sleep is something I hold very near and dear to my heart. I do not compromise sleep often, but if I do I make it up on weekends. Besides, if I do not get enough sleep then I will not have enough energy to do anything else.

I definitely contradict what the Teenage Triangle states. With time