Prompt 180: Do Overs
Do everything again? Considering I'm not seventeen till August that's kinda a tough question. Then again, considering I've been sprung from the Hell That Is Known As High School, it's suddenly becoming not so tough.
All the same, I just don't know. I could SAY I'd want to be made differently, good enough for the jousting team, good enough to be Lancelot's pal instead of punching bag, but then you know...I never liked the jousting team, I don't think I'd even like if I had been on it from the start, they all waste too much time kicking everyone around who isn't just like them. I mean if they had ME convinced...I think we know where this is going.
Gwen...I would have made her like me just a little maybe. More than just a little, but come on, it's me we're talking about here, I've got to be at least realistic, even if the rest of you have now got to play nice because of who I am, when I say she'd never have liked me as the world's biggest loser, which no one can tell me I wasn't.
I mean trust me, when the GAMERS have you dangling from ye olde basketball hoop, you've got to learn that something's up, and I don't just mean your underwear after getting your daily wedgie.
So would I change High School if I could? I want to say that yes, I'd do it in a second, make myself the king of all things cool, the ruler of Worstershire High, but you know...I just can't do it now. Maybe there's too much that's changed about me with the last few months, maybe being away from that Hell's what's done it, but you know that High School really isn't everything.
And I'm not really such a loser either. Part of me says go for that, and leave this question here, with some grand statement about finding my confidence, charging off to save the world with the whole reign of Arthur, King of Far Far Away who never has to see any of those people who made my life torture again, but there's one thing that I'd want.
My Dad? I'd like to know just WHY he felt the need to dump me when and where he did, what crappy thing I did, what I could have changed there to make him like me just a little. Maybe even enough that he'd stayed, but if not that, a letter or something would have been sort of nice. If I could find out what I did to make that whole thing not happen...
Maybe then I'd change that part a little. It wouldn't be so bad having him hanging around, maybe telling me he's happy that I've become King. But I can get on fine without him anyway, I'm sort of glad how I turned out anyway, and you know, I wouldn't lose that after all.
I guess I would change nothing then. That isn't so bad really...
-Arthur Pendragon ("Artie")
Shrek
Word Count: 502
All the same, I just don't know. I could SAY I'd want to be made differently, good enough for the jousting team, good enough to be Lancelot's pal instead of punching bag, but then you know...I never liked the jousting team, I don't think I'd even like if I had been on it from the start, they all waste too much time kicking everyone around who isn't just like them. I mean if they had ME convinced...I think we know where this is going.
Gwen...I would have made her like me just a little maybe. More than just a little, but come on, it's me we're talking about here, I've got to be at least realistic, even if the rest of you have now got to play nice because of who I am, when I say she'd never have liked me as the world's biggest loser, which no one can tell me I wasn't.
I mean trust me, when the GAMERS have you dangling from ye olde basketball hoop, you've got to learn that something's up, and I don't just mean your underwear after getting your daily wedgie.
So would I change High School if I could? I want to say that yes, I'd do it in a second, make myself the king of all things cool, the ruler of Worstershire High, but you know...I just can't do it now. Maybe there's too much that's changed about me with the last few months, maybe being away from that Hell's what's done it, but you know that High School really isn't everything.
And I'm not really such a loser either. Part of me says go for that, and leave this question here, with some grand statement about finding my confidence, charging off to save the world with the whole reign of Arthur, King of Far Far Away who never has to see any of those people who made my life torture again, but there's one thing that I'd want.
My Dad? I'd like to know just WHY he felt the need to dump me when and where he did, what crappy thing I did, what I could have changed there to make him like me just a little. Maybe even enough that he'd stayed, but if not that, a letter or something would have been sort of nice. If I could find out what I did to make that whole thing not happen...
Maybe then I'd change that part a little. It wouldn't be so bad having him hanging around, maybe telling me he's happy that I've become King. But I can get on fine without him anyway, I'm sort of glad how I turned out anyway, and you know, I wouldn't lose that after all.
I guess I would change nothing then. That isn't so bad really...
-Arthur Pendragon ("Artie")
Shrek
Word Count: 502