So, you reached the end of the semester… and you survived. All you do is sit and write because that is what keeps your brain going and that was what the assignment entailing of you to do. Sometimes, you’re upset and take all that sadness and put that into your naps. Have you found a glimmer of hope or happiness? You are taking steps to success, but happiness should be there too. I hope that in the next year you are smiling because you found the right people and your tears are streaming of joy. Next semester, you should continue working hard enough to get good results for yourself and not put yourself down all the time. You know AGUST D wrote a song called “People” where he sings and raps about himself and the aspects of his life. Do these lyrics ring a bell?

“Umm. Why so serious? (Why so serious?)
Why so serious? (Why so serious?) Why so serious? (Why so?)
Umm. I’m so serious (I’m so serious)
I’m so serious (I’m so serious) I’m so, I’m so”

He wrote these lyrics to help you understand why his life was a rumble between success and happiness and that joy should come from being happy instead of subtracting it to have success.

“So what?
What if you just brush by?
So what?
What if you get hurt?
Sometimes you might get hurt again
Sometimes you might shed tears upset
So what?
What if you live like that?”

Just another reminder that it’s okay to be like this right now because your feelings are valid to me.

For anyone interested on giving the song a listen, here’s the link:

Okay

My name is Zainab Jahangir and I’m feeling okay. I say this because I know what it was like to finish my last semester of high school online and graduating online as well. What concerns me the most is how the environment is still the way it was as if there is not room for improvement in the world and we are looped in this never ending cycle of a pandemic that doesn’t want to stop. I feel as though I will be fine given the circumstances right now. All I have to do is do my best my best and try my hardest, because I want to be the improvement of my writing skills and not go on being a weak writer. One way I learned to tackle extensive writing and literary analysis was doing AP Literature in my senior year of high school, I passed the exam, and understood a lot of terms that I generally never come across in English class. The picture above is not a something rather a someone who is one of my idols. I chose it because he’s smiling in it, which is the straightforward answer, but he’s really happy after going through so much hardship. He means something to me because without him and the comfort of his music, I don’t think I would’ve gotten better for myself.