APPRECIATION POST: CELEBRATE YOUR SMALL PROGRESS!

Everyone deserves a pat on their back regardless if they have honors, high honors, or without any embellishments after their names. We are all different but equally essential in our own beautiful ways. We learn differently. Some may take time, and some are quick. Some loves to read out loud their reviewers and some are quiet. We are all different learners.

Though we always aim for excellence, let's not forget those people who always tried their best and learned from their failures! You will never achieve excellence when you have a rotten character, low conscientiousness with your performance, and rigid mindset as if you are the best among others. Let's stop comparing ourselves from one another. Let's stop this hypercompetitive culture because it's destructive for some people!

School is awesome if rote learning is deemphasize and comparison among students aren't centered. School is not a place to create anxious and hypercompetitive individuals. Okay? (Magagalit si Mareng Horney).

Let's create a community where we celebrate even small improvements of learners and an inclusive community to all types of learners! School isn't a place solely to get high grades but a place to reflect on who you want to be, to find your passion, and to value learning. Nagiging nakakatakot na ang school kasi na-instill dito yung perfection eh. Kaya natatakot na magkamali tayo.

Give your best but please don't be too harsh on yourself. Okay? Value your improvements and mental health.

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YOU ARE FREE

Waking up each day thinking about how many mistakes you’ll commit today
How many people you’ll disappoint
How many things you’ll fail
Waking up each day blaming yourself for not being good
For not meeting their expectations
For not being how they want you to be
For not looking how it should be in the society
Pretending each day for their sake
Faking all you could fake


In this world where pretention means perfection
Pretention means adoration
And pretention means love
This is what you should do
This is what you should wear
This is how you should look
And this is how you should act
Do this and that so you’ll succeed
Do this and that so the people will look up to you
Do this and that so the people will love you
Do this and that so the society will accept you
“Forget about what you want to be for this is what you should be”
“Forget about dreaming for it is just crappy.”


And you work so hard trying to meet how it should be
That you forget about your dream
That you forget to ask yourself, “is this really what I want to be?”
You work so hard that negativity consumed the whole you
You work so hard that you get tired


You get so tired of wearing that happy mask, that you should still smile even though you’re hurting
You get so tired of lying, that everything is okay even though your falling
You get so tired of thinking that this is right, even though you know deep in your heart that this is wrong
You get so tired of living someone else’s life


Then if you’re already tired, STOP IT.
Stop the pretentions.
Stop the self-hate.
Stop living like a bird in a cage
Stop living like the puppet of the society.
Stop holding back.


Show of who you are deep inside. All those thoughts and feelings you tried so desperately to hide.
Let yourself be consumed with positivity 
Do the things that make you happy
Be who you want to be for you are capable of so much more
Open your mind and just see how great you can be- your potential, ambitions, and dreams.


For I tell you this, you are precious and you are free.


Words:
Marian Jenn Principe

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