Money has been on my mind lately. Is it true that life revolves around money? Or that the only way we can be happy is by having a lot of it? Or that money can’t buy us happiness? I don’t know what is true about money, but my mind can’t escape it.
This week was a week of money for me. On Friday I opened my very first, all-mine college account at the bank. I paid my phone bill and soon it will be put in my own name. I made my enrollment deposit to my future college. And went car shopping.
There is so many things involving money lately I feel overwhelmed by it. I don’t know a thing about finances, interest rates, or PayPal, how will I know if I’m doing everything the right way? Not only do seniors have to worry about managing money properly, but also trying to receive money by little things called scholarships.
Scholarships are one of the most stressful things about senior year. So many applications and so little time. Deadline approach in a snap of a finger it seems like! Receiving scholarships or not can either make or break your next 4 years if you plan to go to college.
As you can see, I am a bit of a worrywart. A good friend of mine always tells me, why stress it? He is absolutely right. When my friends stress and worry I tell them that things are going to happen whether you worry or not so you should just relax. When I stress I have to purposely remind myself to let it go and listen to my own advice.
When looking at the most successful and richest people in the world, they had to confidently take chances with their investments knowing that it would all work out, and for most of them, it did. If they had that attitude as rookies, we should also follow it their footsteps:
Take risks
Have confidence
Dream Big
With this advice anything is possible.
Bethany! Listen to your good friend, just shake it off and let it go. Live life to the fullest, you can do some of the greatest things without money. Trust me, I know. I have a lot of things to pay for too, my own hygiene, food money for my vegetarian diet, bills to help my grandma, and all kinds of stuff for school. It's not impossible to live without it, I've known a lot of people who don't have much and yet have so much more, in other aspects. I plan to live my life not worrying about money and remember what Mr. Flack always tells us, "pay yourself first."
ReplyDeleteBethany, I to worry about money especially college money!!! It is hard to do scholarships because we are so busy! I know that I need to stop worrying but it's really hard. I also know that I need to start filling out more scholarships and watch how I spend my money because my future is important and it's coming fast.
ReplyDeleteBethany,
ReplyDeleteGreat Blog! I worry about scholarships and college, and so much more! When I do relax, I forget deadlines and all kinds of other stuff. Maybe, I relax too much! But college is going to take so uch out of us, that relaxing is all we're going to want to do! Thanks for writing this, it was great!
P.S.: Worrywart is a great word! :)
~Sharon :)