Day 7: So I Heard You Hate School?

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I woke up rather early today because I figured I procrastinated a lot yesterday and I'm screwed for my two exams tomorrow if I don't take it seriously today, so I thought I'd sort my blog out first thing... Wow, my mind just went completely blank... I hate those moments, you try to think of something smart to say and nothing comes to you. I just got owned by my own brain. Damn it.

Today I decided to talk about school because I've been out of school for two days and I'm starting to miss it and I thought I'd take this chance to blab about it. And it was the first thing that crossed my mind. So, unless you've been living under a rock, you'd know that school is pretty much 'hell' for most students. In fact, 'school' these days is just a short term used for a 'social meeting'. Some people can't wait to go to school on a Monday to tell their friends the latest goss they found out on the weekend, even though they've probably already been talking about it on the phone. So they talk and talk and talk and talk the whole day; in class, recess, lunch hour, they never run out of things to talk about (excluding awkward moments).

Well, if I were to be brutally honest, school is really not a very fun place to be. Just stating the obvious. I mean I'd much rather be out with my friends watching a movie or what not. Who wouldn't? And my friends are partly the reason I go to school. Maybe the fact that I hate missing out on notes too. The 'catching up' bit, it's worse than having a zombie apocalypse. Not really, but you get my idea. So why do I go to school still? Apart from my friends and having parents that 'care'... Actually, I have no idea. I can't say it's for a promising future. It probably is for some people, not for me. I want to be a Musician after I leave high school (edit: not anymore). But we're not talking about that right now.

I once had this idea that schooling should just be an online thing, considering the amount of time students spend using the internet. With that, some students could go online and study their hearts out if they want to, and the others would be free to partay. That'd mean you wouldn't have to be somewhere early in the morning every weekday of your teenage life, you can just go in and out of studying. Obviously the people who want to get somewhere in their lives will engage to it no matter how much they hate studying, and the people who don't care, I'm not even going to bother with them. This way it'd be proven who actually deserves a good future and who doesn't. I would say it's like being 'home-schooled', except home-schooling has fixed times, does it? I wouldn't know. Well I'm not saying my idea's brilliant, it'd just be nice to have it as an option, I guess. Suddenly I just had another idea that it should also be like a social network too, so you can chat with your teachers and ask them questions and stuff. How cool would you be? Being on the teacher's 'Top Friends List', I bet at least one person would like that.

Just recently I asked my dad why people needed to study, then work later, if we're just going to pay taxes to the government, and then the government pays us to work, like the money's just going around. Why couldn't they just give us money and everything be free? Although money wouldn't really be of any use if everything was free would it. I didn't realize how stupid my question was until my dad answered: "Well, if no one worked and no one paid, where would we get our essentials from? Who'd make our clothes? Our houses? No one, because if everyone had money, no one would bother doing anything, everyone would just take and take. The Earth wouldn't be moving at all (figuratively speaking), it would just be a big ball of blob." The 'big ball of blob' part was added by me, I thought it was fit to add to the moment. What my dad said totally (and I mean really) shut me up. I seriously thought at that time I was asking a sensible question, I obviously wasn't. I could tell from his tone, it was as if I asked a question like "Why do we have to eat if we only gain weight?" See how stupid that question is?

Anyway, I guess school is not really that bad, is it? Some days, it is, indeed. But you still get to see your friends and bitch about people talk about stuff, plus, you learn an awful lot of some cool new things. And of course, there'd still be your favorite subjects, the things you surely enjoy doing at school, I know I have one. Besides, it will get you somewhere in life, it's to 'prepare you for the future'. So school? Yes, it sucks. But you're never too cool for school.

Tomorrow: The Society Against Gay People