to infinity and BEYOND!

I'm so tired of thinking about the future,I remember being in the sixth grade and my teacher saying you HAVE to do well this and next school year because high schools look at those grades when they except you(so apparently eighth grade means nothing).All that pretty much means if you're not perfect in sixth and seventh grade your future is ruined,you wont get into a good high school and of course if you're not in a good high school you wont get into a good college,or at least that's the impression i got from that when i was 11.What kind of message does that send? are they trying to scare you into doing well or simply just saying the truth, fast forward a few years and I'm seventeen quickly approaching adulthood and very scared of mediocrity, I say I want to be a writer, but will I make it? am i even good enough? the quick answer is I don't know, all I know is that the future is something I'm dreading, but It's not supposed to be like that,you know "the world is your oyster " and all that crap, but honestly sometimes I feel like the oyster being swallowed up by the world (wow I can't believe I wrote that oyster thing pretentious,huh lol).