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Per-Dev Journal Entry #4: dealing with the challenges of adolescence stage

Being the eldest of all, daughter and grand daughter, the pressure is great since all them (my relatives) are looking up to me. Achieving nothing is like being a trash in our home. I cannot describe exactly what my family thinks but it really feels heavy that it can cause me so much stress. In the long run, as I get mature, I realized that it’s you who will be enjoying the path you will take and it’s you who will be riding the roller coaster experience of life. 

Basic adulting is hard when you have no one beside you to talk things over. I'm not the type of person who communicates with my family even with the smallest achievement of myself. I just keep everything in me. Indeed, adolescent is the stage of  being torn between adulting and teenager feels. It's really hard to motivate yourself alone but relying and leaning on to the wisdom of God always helps. It helps a lot! The importance of getting into experiences, challenges and mixed emotions is that you know how to handle things and situations while growing up. Always take these as a step on making yourself armored by the things that will come may it be in the worst or best smash. As the song goes “you can never be too happy in this life”, just embrace, adjust and make the most out of life of course according to God's will.

Per-Dev Journal Entry #3.2: peer social comparison

I can describe myself as an approachable person and so with that character I have many friends. Peer comparison cannot be denied. Sometimes, I personally get to ask myself with things that my friends would possess and his/her situation that I’m in. In desperation, I told myself often times that I wish I had someone's life.  Sad but it's true. I know it's a negative side of me but generally it's a common feeling of most of the teenagers today. With the rapid use of social media, we tend to be anxious at some angles and we compare ourselves to what the society declares. Peers also do a great impact on how we deal and socialize ourselves with people. I consider my peers as my third home, where I can be real and loud at them. We should not be jealous with what our friends have and learn to be inspired with the things you want yourself to have with what u see in your friends.