Sunday, 7 September 2014

The Stress That Is Ellie

Ellie realises that she is about to be going to a place that could drastically change her future - also known as St Brendans Sixth Form College. She is terrified, petrified even, but with a hint of excitement at the thrill of the unknown. This could be a new start and for her to make new friends. It should be one of the best times of her life.

However, there’s is one problem. How is she going to handle the stress of college life? Essays on top of essays, stress after stress after stress.
And on top of all of that, she has to go home to her, loves to embarrass at any chance they get, parents, her perfect in every way little sister and just annoying older brother. Sure, they are normally pretty great to be around but when pressured with tons of homework, their mix of attitudes doesn’t exactly help her.

All she wants to do is sit down with a big tub of ‘Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food Ice cream’ and watch countless episodes of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Nonetheless she can’t do that for the rest of her life
Questions start to form in her head and anxiety starts to build. What if no one likes her? What if her old friends abandon her and she’s left on her own for the next two years of her life? What if her taste in music and questionable fashion choices damages her social life? What if she doesn’t have a social life to begin with? What if her deficiency of height at a minuscule 4’10” is a problem and she can’t reach anything? What if she gets lost on the bus and can’t find her way back?
What if the clumsy gene she shares with her brother and gained from her mother, causes her embarrassment through the two extensive and dreaded years of college?
As she considers all of these disastrous questions she feels what can only be described as ‘pee in your pants terrified.’

Is she going to succeed in College?
Will embarrassment and cringe-worthiness take over her existence as usual?

Will life do what it has a tendency of doing and throw plane crashing sized problems her way?

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