"Are You Ready to Embrace the Responsibilities of Your Role?"

I am a 16 years old student and I am a person in society. I have roles I must carry out. Every role comes with responsibility. However, I believe with every responsibility comes expectations. Expectations from school, teachers, family, people. We try to make everything perfectly but it takes a lot from us. Not everything we do must be perfect and all people should remember that for a peaceful life. Perfection is an illusion. If we chose to do everything perfectly, our lifes we will be looking for something that does not even real. Also there is a situation which we seek validation from the other people. For instance, I used to always think of the other's thought of me. I did almost everything -including doing things I did not like, wasting my time, underrestimating myself- to be liked by everyone. It was toxic and unreachable. I was hurting myself. I still remember how hard I beat up myself after someone else's critizations, feeling like failure. No matter how hard I pushed myself, there was no satisfaction or limit. I tried to make everyone feel beter except myself. Other people's opinion was always above me, I could not hele feeling guilty even though it was not my fault. Then everything fell down. Everyone around me, their vision of me… It got so worse that people around me, my family effected by it. I had no choice but get better. After that, I did what I was supposed to be doing and for myself, I tried to get better. With help of my family, books, friends I learned how to prioritize myself and my mental health. It is a hard journey but still I am trying to learn from it. Accepting and moving on as myself. That is what I am searching for myself.

Beray Dovan, Board of Director