In the middle of Midterms week, the ability to balance everything becomes more precarious. Priorities have to be made. Opportunities are missed, sleep is disregarded. The double standard of being everything becomes even more prominent.

Our society prides itself on focus. The average young adult is expected to do well in school, get good grades, have a job, hobbies, extracurricular activities, all while fitting a certain norm. Not to mention the necessary act of staying in shape, eating right, being healthy, and mentally sound. But how can you do it all when theres only 24 hours a day and seven days a week?

I have 83 diaries. Some only half full. I have two cats, a turtle, and a car named luna. I own 13 hula hoops, and have an extensive gym membership. I'm a hostess/bartender in Boston, and I aspire to be a venue owner. I attend the most prestigious contemporary music school in the country, but I am studying business. I am a walking irony. I do it all, but I would never consider myself an overachiever.

I've had to quit more bad habits than most people I know, but I've managed to quit them. I've gotten two speeding tickets, one car accident, and procrastination is a skill of mine. I bite my nails. I am far from perfect.

So while we are expected to care about our classes, we shouldn't brown nose. We aren't cool if we are over studious, so being the class clown gains you society points. Double standards are all around us, dictating how we conduct ourselves and make our decisions. But I implore you to forget about society's standards. We all say we don't care what people think, but let's face it, we do. We are programmed to listen and care, to take in our surroundings and make our decisions based on them. For now, I'm asking you to push your surroundings out of your mind, and look at yourself.

You may be a millennial. You may be a college student, maybe not. You may be a hard worker, or you may be more focused on your weekend plans, or your halloween costume. You, who reads this article, you may be yourself. Whatever that means.

But what if you weren't?

A little over a year and a half ago, I started hula hooping. I've generally been one to push my boundaries, and try everything, because it seemed for such a long time like I wasn't really great at anything, except for singing. Hooping showed me how I could break my norm completely. For the entire summer of 2015, on warm summer nights, you could find me outside my apartment in Boston, in the street, trying to learn to Hoop. Hooping taught me more focus and care than I had known before. It pushed my meditative skills, my self expression, and my coordination further than I needed it to go. I took a leap, because I wanted to combine word all of my worlds meshed perfectly. Before I started, I was self conscious. My friends (who ultimately convinced me to try) would encourage me, and I would decline, saying how there's no way I was coordinated enough for that and how I couldn't ever be as good as them. I surprised myself beyond belief. I am now so much happier, so much more zen, it seems like I couldn't have lived this long without hooping.

Trying new things is a necessity for us. It pushes who we are, and exceeds our development. This is why It's important to be everything.

I used to think that you had to be everything to live up to the expectations set by your mother or dear old dad, or your high school graduates, or fellow colleagues. But being everything is really something you owe to yourself. Of course, there will always be things you are simply not interested in, and things you are not good at. And you are probably just fine the way you are. But development is crucial for everyones happiness. Don't rely on the experiences of life to develop you; create your own experiences. Join a yoga class, meditate, learn how to play squash. Don't limit yourself to being just what you are now. You couldn't find that thing that you didn't know you were missing all along.

Be everything.