now now, don’t get mad :3 these are just my opinions and they will have no direct effect on your life whatsoever 

i assume that everybody’s heard this lecture before but i have no idea why it hasn’t taken effect at all 

(this is only directed specifically towards people that blame their bad grades on lack of motivation. towards people that just don’t try and wonder why their grades are so pathetic at the end of the semester. people who don’t care until the night before their finals. if you try every day and you care, this has nothing to do with you.) 

haven’t your parents ever told you how hard they had to work to get to where they are now? how much strain that they put on themselves just to get out of their home country? 

and you, already living comfortably. you know that shit you reblog, those pictures of babies being so happy about having dirty water to drink? that’s not just a goddamn picture, it’s real. but this post isn’t about how anyone that can see this post probably has clean drinking water. 

yeah i know, teenagers have problems too. i know a bunch of you have gone through self harm and depression and bulimia and anorexia and bullying and more. i know a bunch of you have gone through things i can’t even imagine, and some of you are still going through it. but if it’s over, shouldn’t that only motivate you to work harder? shouldn’t you think, wow, i got through all of that, i can get through finals too? 

you take going to school for granted. you complain about the people there, about your stupid annoying classmates, you complain about dragging yourself out of bed every morning, you complain about doing 1-100 odd math problems. to you it’s a burden, to another kid that’s not living as fuckin comfortably as you, it’s a bundle of opportunities to get out of the hellhole they’re in. 

no, i’m not saying that complaining = not being appreciative, because everyone complains. 

but goddamn, you are handed the opportunity of excelling, of achieving amazing things, of going to a prestigious college, of learning anything you want to learn, all for free. do you go to a public school? it’s free. do you go to a private school? you’re not the one paying tuition, and if you were, you’d probably be working ten times harder. what do you have to do? nothing but show up, pay attention, and work hard. of course none of that is easy, but it’s not meant to be.

you know why your asian parents are so pushy? because you are not pushing yourself. that’s why. you know why their expectations are so high? because yours are so low. if your parents can afford to give you a comfortable life, they can’t be stupid. they see potential in you. if you’ve reached your potential, your parents would stop nagging. 

of course, on the other hand, if you’re happy with where you are, that’s completely fine. really. not everyone has to go to college, not everyone has to join the rat race fully armed and ready to go. if you just want to fuck around, that’s fine. that’s completely your choice. 

but when you half ass things, and then you complain, i just want to give you a huge ass slap in the face and a wake up call. teachers don’t assign huge ass projects the day before it’s due. and even if they do, if you concentrate, you can get it done on time. if you can lose hours of sleep to fucking tumblr, you can lose hours of sleep to studying. they give you due dates so you can plan ahead. you know that advice that parents and teachers always give about not procrastinating? hey, it works! what’dya think of that? 

don’t bullshit your way through 3/4 of a semester, and then expect straight a’s. that’s stupid. like you. don’t start cramming three days before your finals and then beg your teacher for extra credit. 

it’s so stupid because a lot of you are so fucking smart, but you only reach mediocre standards because you only put in mediocre effort. i mean, there are people that half ass their way into the B+ and A range. imagine what you could accomplish if you applied yourself. 

but people won’t apply themselves, they won’t try, they won’t push themselves out of their comfort zone. why? because their comfort zone is just too damn comfortable, that’s why. 

ungrateful. really fucking ungrateful. now, no one’s expecting you to wake up every morning at 6am and think, “god bless my school and my teachers and all the opportunities i have. i am so lucky.” but complaining about problems that you bring upon to yourself, oh my god…

procrastinating for weeks when you know when your finals are? fucking around in class more than half of the time and then expecting to pick up the knowledge in one night? that’s not stress, that’s not lack of motivation, that’s stupidity right there. 

waste of resources. it’s ridiculous how someone could be so smart and capable and so stupid in their decision making at the same time. pisses me off so goddamn much. you’re so fucking lucky that you’re smart, that you have so much goddamn potential, and you waste it. that’s a pity.