Thread:Hiawee/@comment-37745975-20191116053342/@comment-37745975-20191120143333

F0XTRAUT wrote: Here is an excerpt I have typed.

The Cold Hard Reality of Grade School.

School is something that we all need, there are people who try to succeeded and those who don't care about the importance of school.

School is not only friends and a place to have lunch, it also consist of grades. Grades that actually matter, when finding a place to work and to get passage into university and college.

Grades are a way of indicating how smart you are; High grades means your smart while the opposite indicates that your not trying hard enough.

To put into perspective, imagine a Cushion that catches and mitigates the pain that you feel when you fall. Now imagine that the thickness of the cushion is dictated by how high your grades are.

If you have low grades, your cushion would be the thickness of a fleas blanket. It comforts you but does not absorb the impact of the fall. If you have failing grades, your cushion would be nothing but the front cover, no, it would be the floor. And the fact that you failed, means that nothing, will comfort or lessen the amount of pain that you feel when falling on a concrete floor. You fall. There will be so much pain and disappointment that you wouldn't even get up from the floor, the moment you fell.

In fact, you would just lay there. Soaking up your tears and knowing that you failed to do your best to succeed. Because you didn't bother to improve your grades and your self-esteem. And the mere fact that you accept defeat and acknowledge that YOUR NOT GOOD ENOUGH - that no one will pay attention to you, or even care about you. That no one will pick you up from the floor or even worse, someone holds you down - a bully.

And you realize that the world will do better without you, that your not worth it. And the fact that you refuse to even try, no, you stop trying all together. Eventually, you stop caring about school. Because you know, that no matter what you do. You will fail.

And then, you realize that there is no future for you. Because your future is nothing without high grades and courage and strength, that you refused to uphold. You then start thinking about the pain. The pain, that was caused by taking a test and failing because you didn't even study for it because you decided that your going to hang out with friends or that you forget because you wanted to know who was going to win the Game tonight. The pain that will linger until you nerves can no longer feel numb with so much pain. Until you have stopped crying and weeping over how much of a failure you are.

Then you start to man up, and you start to get up. In that moment you realize that you need to do something, something that actually matters. Something that will making you happy, something that will give you strength and confidence.

You are standing off the floor, you then check if there was any scars. You check if that test you failed had any impact on your life, you look deeper and see if it impacted your mark. Your mark has dropped by a lot.

You then realize that you need to start trying to make amends, you get yourself organized and you start thinking of ways to make up. The thought of studying crosses your mind. And you start thinking of how.

You start walking slowly, still straining from the pain and discomfort. You start walking normally, but you take a pause to notice your empty cushion.

You then realize that you don't want to fall again, and that you actually want to put stuff in your cushion. You then get the idea that you can do better, then you realize that there is another test next week. You start grabbing your study material and people who can help you, you start studying.

You start to read and understand the concepts. You ask the right people good questions, you get answers. You start to reconsider your life choices about school, like paying attention in class. Then you make a goal to pass the test next week.

After you finished the test, you look at what you scored. You got a high mark for studying and actually trying. You become pleased with yourself, you start setting expectations of yourself. You start trying to reach these expectations, you start to become more confident in what you do.

You finally, realize that success has never felt so good. Congratulations, you have just contributed to your cushion. You want some more, you feel the urge to succeeded. And you start studying for the next test, confident that your going to pass this one as well.

That is why you should focus in school and make the right decisions. So you don't end up as a nobody or some drug addict that's hung up on Marijuana when you grow up. Some really deep thinking...