diaring-ld
July 16, 2026 at 10:10:30 PM
I feel a bit confused right now… I just graduated from middle school this summer, which means I'm about to become a high school student. But I'm really scared of high school life…
High school academic pressure is really intense, and I’ve already learned a lot about it from social media and talking with classmates and their families. But when I realized that each subject had at least two books to study, I suddenly felt like I had lost the courage to walk into the gate of high school. I use my computer to take online classes every day, but when I sit in front of it, I don't feel like studying at all. I just play the online class videos while opening new tabs to watch other videos. After a whole day, I just feel really anxious, yet I still go on like this the next day. Although my grades aren't bad, they're nothing special, which makes me seem like a discounted clearance item compared to my brother's excellent grades. I've always wanted to prove that I'm not bad, but now I can't even reach the score for the best high school in the city…
I really hate the atmosphere at our place too. My dad has always been really impatient, and he can't find the right way to vent, which makes him often take out his anger on me and my brother over little things (I mentioned it once in a comment a few days ago). As for my mom, I feel that her views on some things are quite unreasonable but she's very stubborn. For example, when it comes to using her phone, it's like she has paranoia; she always acts as if seeing me use my phone while she doesn't have hers completely under control is a huge threat. Oh my god, I’m just chatting with friends on WeChat and watching a bit of Bilibili. I haven’t even been playing games yet, okay! I really just don’t understand why she’s so sensitive about phones. And games—she always thinks games are just a capitalist scam and shouldn’t exist at all. I really can’t deal with it. We students are definitely exhausted from classes, homework is never-ending, parents’ nagging and picking at us never stops, grades don’t improve, rankings stay stagnant, but in games, I can relax, have cool skins, and get praised for my skills. Isn’t that way better than staring at textbooks all day?! I like watching anime and listening to music (though I basically don't listen to Chinese songs from the past few years, they’re just too bad), and I'm also trying to learn how to draw manga myself. But my parents have always thought this is pointless. Every time on my way to school I hear my mom say, 'You have to study hard, forget about everything else,' I feel like it would be better to just jump out of the car and die. I've always felt that a song or a line that can touch people's hearts is better than an hour of preaching. Right now, I don't even dare to look at my phone at all, because even though it's in the living room, I just can't stand my parents constantly watching me use it—it's like being in prison. All I can do now is listen to music, opening new tabs to search for songs while attending online classes. This might be the last way I can vent all my negative emotions, right? I have no idea... I've always felt that a song or a line that can touch someone's heart is better than an hour of preaching. Right now, I don't even dare to look at my phone at all, because even though my phone is in the living room, I just can't stand my parents constantly watching me use it—it feels like being in prison. The only thing I can do now is listen to music, opening new tabs to search for songs while attending online classes. This might be the last way I can let out all my negative emotions, I guess? I really have no idea...
Earlier, in the last few days of the semester, I played my favorite songs on the school computer in class, and then I danced around like crazy in the classroom (my classmates said I looked possessed). I don't know why I wanted to dance, I just knew that at that moment I was really happy, like a total transformation, my brain had completely stopped thinking. Thinking back now, maybe it was because only in that moment could I finally not care at all about things like 'what I should be doing' or 'what will happen in the future'...
(By the way, that day I had just washed my hair and it got completely soaked.)
I originally just wanted to vent a little, but after thinking about it, I felt it would be better to ask others for advice, so I ended up writing a lot. Most of my comments are translated using translation I originally just wanted to vent a little, but after thinking about it, I felt it would be better to ask others for advice, so I ended up writing a lot. Most of my comments are translated using translation software, so if some parts don't make sense, there's really nothing I can do.
Although maybe no one will even read them anyway...
hehe.