리틀팍스

These days, students in South Korea face numerous challenges and hardships. People can easily see articles from newspapers about students who commit suicide because of stress, which was increasing each day for them for various reasons. Every student faces challenges, and as a result, most of them experience depression, distress and anguish in their school years. These obstacles that students face may seem insurmountable to them, and they might even stop students from achieving their goals and dreams. The greatest challenge that students face today is friendship problems because of bullying, conflicts with friends, and jealousy.

First, a great number of students suffer through their school years because of bullying. Some kids who are especially strong or have more money usually pick on others who are weaker or poorer than them. The act of bullying involves serious problems such as threats, physical violence, demanding large amounts of money, swearing, spreading rumors, and so on. Furthermore, according to stopbullying.gov, an official website of the United States government, kids who are bullied are much more likely to experience depression, anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and eating patterns, and many more negative physical, social, emotional, and mental health issues. Bullying is not normal childhood behavior and should not be ignored as the victims feel great agony although the bullies forget about everything shortly after. Thus, bullying is a huge challenge for kids and should not be tolerated.

Second, conflicts with friends easily happen, and they can lead to serious problems for some kids. Most students have several close friends at school, and they cannot avoid getting into an argument or two with their friends as they spend more and more time with them. They are caused by factors like poor communication skills, lack of consideration or respect, different opinions about things, and so on. Many of the disputes are normal things which get solved pretty easily, sometimes with some help from an adult, and friendships between students get back to normal. However, there are exceptions which are difficult to work out. Small arguments can become fist fights, and fist fights can become huge trouble. This can get some students suspended or even expelled from school, but even worse, they will be wounded with deep emotional pain. Therefore, friendship conflicts are a big challenge to students.

Lastly, jealousy is one of the main reasons why students have problems with others at school. If their best friend starts to hang out with someone else more often than they hang out with them, or when another student brings something expensive and cool to school and brags about it, it is natural to feel envy in situations like these. However, this leads to disputes and all sorts of fights which can become a huge problem. People usually act impulsively when they feel strong envy coming from a place of suspicion and insecurity, and these things might grow into obsessions that threaten to destroy friendships. Furthermore, jealousy distorts communication between friends and can lead to verbal or physical abuse. Jealousy is a dangerous emotion, and it can turn into broken friendships and difficulties at school, especially for young students who do not know how to control them properly. To wrap up, feeling envious can be a huge challenge for kids.

In conclusion, the greatest challenge that students face today is friendship problems.  Firstly, a lot of students get bullied and struggle because of it. Secondly, conflicts and arguments with friends happen a lot, but some of them can turn out to be serious trouble that can make school difficult for students. Finally, jealousy does a lot of harm to friendships and may wreck them completely in extreme cases, so it is a big problem. Students should remember that no matter how many challenges they face and have trouble dealing with, they are all important human beings and they should never, ever give up life or hope.

+ I wrote this essay for fun since I had some spare time. I might upload written works of mine (mostly essays) every now and then when I have time to. Thanks for reading!