A teenager’s diary…

Study hard for your final exams. Share notes; sorrow and happiness. Give courage and confidence to each other. Score top marks. Take a break sometimes. Smile please!

By Trisha Rawat 

Teenager means high school, that part of school where we learn the most important things of our life.

This is not new, this feeling of being in high school. I have been feeling it since I was in Class 9. These feelings have been inside me all these years, but I just did not realise them until now — as I am in Class 11 now. Just one more year and all this will be gone! 

Forever!

Bunking classes, gossiping about the people we don’t like, concerned about our future and relieving it with a chat with friends, being strict with timetables, and never following them diligently; reading, studying, exchanging notes, learning new wonders of life, new knowledge systems. I seem to have become an ‘experienced teenager’ now.

So today this experienced teenager is going to talk to you about something that has changed my life as well —  some people who have always supported me, been there for me, and have always wished for my welfare. 

Friends. It might sound like a simple word, but it has a deep feeling — not a meaning, but a feeling within it. 

All my school years I have jumped from school to school trying to find the best one, but when I got admission in this one, I realised that I have to study here for four years. When I came here, I realised that not everyone is difficult to be friends with. 

I made friends whom I can  genuinely call ‘friends’. It is not like I am bragging about them. I am just telling you that if you try, no one is hard to be friends with. 

It just takes a little bit of courage, patience and generosity, and maybe some extra effort, to be friends with someone whom you think it is impossible to be friends with. Friends are not people who will betray you later on; they are the people who will protect you from the toxic ones. 

I know there would have been times when you lose your trust in friendship because either you have been betrayed, or you have lost connection somehow. So, just don’t lose hope because there are people who are in your destiny as friends. 

Having friends is like having a companion who knows how to have fun with you, make you laugh, feel light on  your feet; but, who also knows how to teach you, help in self-introspection, and how to improve your mistakes. If you have these kinds of friends, then, you should definitely keep them, and always be friends with them, because they are the true ones. 

They lift you to another level. They don’t drag  you down.

I would love to tell you why I believe that friends are the most important part of our lives. And this thinking has not developed suddenly. It was hard at first having so many people who actually want to help you when you need them, and helping them when they need you.  

I think it is enough self-realisation for today.  Study hard for your final exams. Share notes; sorrow and joy. Give courage and confidence to each other. Score top marks. Take a break sometimes. Smile please!

As you read my story, you seem to be ready to go to your friends, and thank them for everything. 

Do it! 

Why not? 

Also, enjoy your precious time in school — it will go away faster than you can imagine.

Trisha Rawat is a Class 11 student of Dr BR Ambedkar School of Specialized Excellence (SOSE), Dwarka, Delhi Board of Secondary Education (DBSE), Delhi.