What's Important in LIfe

Think about what's important in life is a big question that when you ask a group of people not one of those people's answers will be the exact same. Importance is something that has to having meaning and some things are more important than other things to people. For me it is happiness. To someone else it may be love or money or knowledge.
To me though I think happiness is a broad term that could fit within all those ideas; love, money, knowledge... Another thing that is Important is faith and belief. Not just in God which is a good thing to do because as someone who grew up in a religious home God is something that is important in life but also faith/belief in oneself.
Now a days teens, or everyone, have a hard time being successful. Not only that but believing in themselves. We grew up in a different time period than our parents. We grew up with technology that lets us have to ways to get answers to the homework but also a struggle to pay attention in class because of the wide range of social media the internet now has. Our parents don't understand the struggles we face now because we are teenagers and are so dramatic right? We broke up with our first crush and that's the end we will never find someone again. We made a F the test we thought we did amazing on that's it I am not going to College.
Because teens are so dramatic and just assume the worse rather than thinking thinks out from all different directions and thinking rationally we just give up on ourselves and stop caring. That is why we go for mediocrity because we just doubt ourselves and don't put faith in ourselves. That needs to change.
The important things in life to me is having faith in myself. It should always be like that and it should not change. I am not saying be a confident person who is rude because it is okay to be confident, especially in this world, but not rude. To becoming faithful and essentially happy with yourself you have to surround yourself with people that build you up. The people who are your "friends" or people who you hang out with are what you essentially are going to be. If you surround yourself with slackers who don't want to do anything then that is what you will start to do. If you surround yourself with people who challenge themselves and push you to do your best then you will become better than what you ever imagined.
Last year I was surrounded by people who were smarted than me, which is not unusual, and when it came time to check our GPA they always got 4.0's and higher. I always got a 3.5-3.8 and was always ashamed to have that grade because I felt like a dumb person. This year I have a 4.0 which I am extremely proud of. Since I surrounded myself with people who were smarter than me it pushed me to become smarter and push myself to becoming better than what I was.
"Work Hard, Dream Big."
"No one is in charge of your happiness but you."