It’s Not Easy by Khori Mitchell
“The students were reminded by none other than Kermit the Frog that ‘It’s not easy being green.’ They were then asked to consider what about their lives is ‘not easy.’ The students’ essays on this topic were excellent. Here is an example.” Don Riesett, Writing Mentor & Teacher
Starting a new community isn’t easy. Being a freshman, I’m going through many challenges. I have to be precise with my work which is very time consuming. I can’t go to a lot of events with my friends and I feel alone most of the time.
Trying to talk to people outside of this community is very difficult. I always see my friends having a wonderful time at their high school, no stress from homework, going to football games, going to the mall etc. Every time I hear my friends talking about their high school experience compared to mine I always think to myself, “dang it’s not easy to be me” Here,I am worried about if I’m going to be on the homework list while my friends around me are worried about clubs, school dances, sports etc.
While the teachers have been saying I’ve been doing good with homework, I’ve had a major setback today and it made me think, I feel so out of place because my friends aren’t stressed like me and the people around me at this school are doing a lot better than I am.
So I say all of this to say it’s not easy.
Before I came to this school, a lot of people were telling me it’s not supposed to be easy. You learn from your mistakes. It’s part of life. I’ve had many conversations with older people who went to this school and they explained the challenges they went through.
What inspires me the most is that every time each of them said they had a challenge, they also said how they’ve overcome it and how it made them the person that they are today.
I see these people and they look brilliant. They look put together and they have amazing things going for themselves. But overall, they mostly just look happy.
I want to be like that. I want to have amazing things going for myself. I want to be brilliant, but I mostly want to be happy. So I’m going to continue to try my best and I’m going to continue to try to give myself some grace because it’s okay to make mistakes.
Khori Mitchell
9/27/24