Facing the future

I feel that many of us, especially as high school students, often worry too much about the future and our past. We are still only teenagers who need to enjoy our time before becoming adults, yet many of us rush into it thinking that the future is the only thing that will lead to your happiness. If you worry too much you will not enjoy the time you have in this moment. Yet our society puts many hypocritical expectations on us, we have to go party and cause trouble, but we have to have the perfect grades, a job, do chores, all while still maintaining their social interactions because if you don't do these things you won't go anywhere in life. An over dramatic example of this is telling a kid in school that "if you lose your pencil you can't take the note, if you don't take the note you won't pass the test, if you don't pass the test your average goes down, if your average goes down you won't get accepted into post-secondary, if you don't get accepted to post-secondary you can't get a job, if you can't get a job you can't make money, if you can't make money you can't eat, and if you can't eat you starve to death, so don't lose that pencil!" It is absurd to place so much pressure, yes the future is important, but you make your own future, not other people with their expectations.