I've have a lot of problems with time. I mean I'm so busy with School and Basketball that I don't have time to do anything I really want to do. Like go to the movies, or play video games, or sleep... Seriously I haven't gotten an 8 hour sleep since last weekend. I was going to see Coraline with my friend but I have a tornament on a SATURDAY. My team only has 2 games but one's at 2:00 and the other's at 5:45. We won't get back until 10:00 or 11:00 because we're staying for every game for all of my school's teams. I am truly ticked about that. I mean Saturday and Sunday's gone. and the only day I have to relax is Monday because we don't have school but I have to spend the whole day doing homework. I don't know why I think I need to have all A's but B's make me think that I'm slacking and that I'll get a C and then a D and then I'll fail. But it troubles me because everyone else gets to have fun except for me. My sis gets to go to parties and hangs out with ner friends. While I'm at home doing school work or cleaning, She also bugs me about how I don't have any real friends and how I only have internet friends. The reality is that my friend's have to hang out without me because I have to do something else when actually that something else could have been done later. My friend also goes to her other parent's house during the weekends which is a state above me. So I can't hang out with her. Also because of my time problem I've been classified as a super geek. Why? Because since I try to get good grades I take my books with me and study in the morning where everyone is in the morning. (there are only 64 of us 8th graders so everyone knows everyone). I don't dress like everyone else (mainly because jeans are uncomfortable to me especailly skinny jeans), I'm a clutz (I'd seriously hold the title of "the person who drops their things the most" and "the person who runs into people the most", and also because I'm not silly. (most of the "cool people" don't like me because I don't like to do silly things that will get me into unnessasary trouble. I can't remember to put my rubber bands in so my jaw is going to stick out this way forever unless I can find a way to remember to put them on. I look like a tornado hit me when I come to school in the morning. I'm not eating breakfast. Most times I wake up in the morning roll out of bed and try to do as many hygenical things I can before leaving for the bus (wash face, brush teeth, etc) and most of the time I forget something important that will make me feel gross throughout the day. Also I keep forgetting to pack a lunch. So my stomach is really loud through all my classes. My friends think I'm malnourished because of this (which might be possible because of how weak I feel when I come home from playing in a game. During the whols school week (until I get home) I'm hungry, tired ( I don't go to bed until 3 or 4 in the morning which is bad because I have to wake up at 6), irritable, hygenically challenged, and my room's a mess because I haven't had time to clean it (this is also bad because my parents don't like messes). I know I'm half way to the answer because I found out that scheduling was the main reason for all of my problems. So. any advice? (btw sorry this is so long. I was going to write this a while ago when I didn't have this many problems but I was stressed and tired.
From what you told me, you seem like an overachiever and possibly enduring extreme stress. Now I don't know how important your basketball is to you, but if it were me, I would leave the team, because it is clearly interfering with your social and private life (not going to movies, not getting comletely ready or resting enough). Also, it seems to be interfering with your health. I would recommend either dropping the basketball, or any other extra-curricular activity (trust me, you can get into college without them, if that's what you're worried about), OR, you should go see a doctor, or a psychologist, or someone who specializes in time management and treating stress.
the same thing is happening to my brother. hes on the soccer team and he has to wait for the other games to end and he gets home real late working on his homework. they should just have two buses so they dont have to wait...
Never put the things you need to do above the things you want to do. It's a pretty sick society that clouds our minds with the notion of necessity at the expense of our happiness.
Well basketball just ended with last night's tournament so I do have more time. Also basketball was just a side thing to keep me active while I didn't have P.E. I loved playing it too but it ended up taking up all of the time that I needed to do homework. And as you saw it interfered with a whole lot of other things as well. Yeah. That's normally what happens. Except that we come on a completely different bus sometimes and for some reason we still have to wait. Season ended. Thanks for the comment. ^_^ I think that's why all of my friends are so busy that I can't hang out with them when I'm free and when they're free I can't hang out with them.
