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Am I Good Enough?

Submitted by sjoyce on March 29, 2008 - 10:14.

Am I Good Enough?

By Andrew Richardson
Chelsea Public School, Grade 11

My fear is not being good enough. When people look at me I feel like a spectacle that everybody can point their fingers at whenever something goes wrong. I mean, I'm sixteen years old. I should be having the time of my life but no, I have to worry about who's saying what about me. Why do I have to be perfect? Can't it be someone else's job to take the heat for once? Am I so inadequate that I have to carry all of the negative energy on my shoulders? I try hard to be adequate. I take everything I do to the extreme just so that when I got to bed at night I know that nobody, at this very moment, is going to be upset at me. But yet, I know I'm not the only one who has this problem. Why are we all easy targets?

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