Entry #4 ~ That was Then, This is now

When I was young, I thought that school was pointless, but now that I’m older, I see that it’s not that pointless because there are many reasons why people make us come to school.
They want us to come to school to prep us for when we live on our own. We won’t have our parents with us all the way. We won’t have siblings that we can just yell at for no reason and vent our frustration out on them. We will have to rely on ourselves and have to work at everything we want to get. At school, the teachers don’t just say, “Hey, I like that student so I’m just going to give them an A.” We have to work at it. The people that don’t work hard and don’t really care are going to wish they had when they grow up and don’t have a job, behind on their rent, and having problems in their social life. They grew up not trying and having people help them along the way, so now they will fall apart. If they do have someone to help them through it, that person will get sick and tired of working so hard to help their friend survive and eventually leave them alone.

Also, they want us to have some social life. We meet new friends, lose some, and we will have people who will change our lives and we will never be able to forget them. When we meet new people, we’re kind of scared and so it’s better to learn to hide that feeling for when we go in for an interview and we know no one there. We will have to be able to talk to them like an old friend because usually that’s how you get the job. When we lose friends, it makes us stronger because it means that we have felt pain, and we might know how to handle it better when we get out on our own. And when we meet those people who change our lives, how are you not supposed to not forget them. They made you who you are today and you owe them so much, yet it’s not their fault. It’s kind of like the lyrics of a song from the Broadway musical, Wicked. “Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.”

So who ever said that school wasn’t useful? We use it everyday. We may not use all the math, science, social studies, etc, but we use our experiences with the people there everyday. Let’s face it, there are going to be people around you every single day, and we can’t change that.