"I love school!" literary concoction
I love school. I mean, I really love school. It's what gets me up in the morning. It's what compels me to bathe and do that whole hygiene bag that I just wouldn't buy into if I didn't buy into school a bit more.
Now don't get me wrong; I wasn't always this excitable about something like 21st century education. I used to hate school. I loathed it, sure. Didn't everyone else? Yeah, they did. Bunch of 'em still do. Never gets old to them, does it? Even nowadays; upperclassmen to boot. It's not hard to find 'em. They're popular, always got their clique. Quite the task to catch 'em alone. I always reckoned they needed someone to bitch to whenever they got the slightest inclination. But that ain't too Christian of me, now is it?
Me, I just never really put my heart into it, that's all. Never could wrap my mind around hating school with my whole being. I figured, I'm going here for four years, might as well get used to it. Because this school sure ain't gonna' adapt to me, that's for sure! Though I kept up the routine, I fell out with those people junior year. Man, wasn't soon enough! Now, I don't hate 'em or anything. It's just that I wish it were sooner, and more obvious. 'Cause I spent a lot of time on something that was never really gonna' prosper. But no regrets or anything like that. What's done is done, and I benefitted from it quite nicely, you see. At least I know what the signs mean when you're being estranged from a group. Not that I wasn't doin' any estranging myself; I just didn't see much benefit to our interactin'. I mean, I ain't coming over everyday just so we can watch each other eat!
But I'm getting off track now. It was a difference of priorities, that's all. I don't want the small talk that gets us nowhere. Leads to more confusion than understanding in my opinion. I reckon there wouldn't be half as much bullshit if people took each other a tip more seriously these days. But there's not much chance of that, no sir. And I don't get it. Not one bit. Do people not give a damn? Or are they just too lazy? Rather sit on their haunches talking 'bout movies 'stead of directors. Yeah, I know it's a bad example. I mean, when's anybody gonna' talk about a movie director unless something depends on it? But, then again, maybe that there is the problem. Why are people scared to shut their mouths about their sight and open 'em for their vision?
I wonder sometimes if those people just don't care about anything more than the weather or the dance. Maybe they are just too lazy to talk about anything else that strikes their fancy. Shit, I don't know. All I know is, I can see more than they can, and it's looks mighty fine to me. I look at my school and I see somethin' unique. I see job that only we can fill. It's like in the Gilgamesh. The gods can't suffer through strife and what-not: they're perfect! But Gilgamesh can suffer and learn. He's got a little somethin' called challenge in his life. We got school. The teachers are useless in our position. We come to school everyday to go through an education so that we can improve our lives. So what if it's hard. Ain't like it's unnecessary! No, this is a good kinda' roughness, like the leather that sharpens the blade. We're all specialists here, doing what only we can, preppin' for our trade, whatever that may be.
School? Yeah, it's rough, no doubt about it. It's one helluva challenge. But I love it. It's unique the whole, wide world over. Where else you gonna' find anything like this? If you know, tell me. 'Cause I'd love to go through somethin' new with new people in my same situation. It's getting closer to the end now. You know it too. But you got your friends with you. They're gonna' help you out when you need it, mark my words. You just gotta' find 'em. And me, well, heh, I'm not stickin' around the people who hate the school that's givin' 'em the friends, that's for sure!
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Appreciate your school; you're lucky. Try not to forget that. You have lasting friendships you made at your school. Don't forget that. And you are part of a community that you'll only be a part of once. Never forget that.
- Grant Callender
Now don't get me wrong; I wasn't always this excitable about something like 21st century education. I used to hate school. I loathed it, sure. Didn't everyone else? Yeah, they did. Bunch of 'em still do. Never gets old to them, does it? Even nowadays; upperclassmen to boot. It's not hard to find 'em. They're popular, always got their clique. Quite the task to catch 'em alone. I always reckoned they needed someone to bitch to whenever they got the slightest inclination. But that ain't too Christian of me, now is it?
Me, I just never really put my heart into it, that's all. Never could wrap my mind around hating school with my whole being. I figured, I'm going here for four years, might as well get used to it. Because this school sure ain't gonna' adapt to me, that's for sure! Though I kept up the routine, I fell out with those people junior year. Man, wasn't soon enough! Now, I don't hate 'em or anything. It's just that I wish it were sooner, and more obvious. 'Cause I spent a lot of time on something that was never really gonna' prosper. But no regrets or anything like that. What's done is done, and I benefitted from it quite nicely, you see. At least I know what the signs mean when you're being estranged from a group. Not that I wasn't doin' any estranging myself; I just didn't see much benefit to our interactin'. I mean, I ain't coming over everyday just so we can watch each other eat!
But I'm getting off track now. It was a difference of priorities, that's all. I don't want the small talk that gets us nowhere. Leads to more confusion than understanding in my opinion. I reckon there wouldn't be half as much bullshit if people took each other a tip more seriously these days. But there's not much chance of that, no sir. And I don't get it. Not one bit. Do people not give a damn? Or are they just too lazy? Rather sit on their haunches talking 'bout movies 'stead of directors. Yeah, I know it's a bad example. I mean, when's anybody gonna' talk about a movie director unless something depends on it? But, then again, maybe that there is the problem. Why are people scared to shut their mouths about their sight and open 'em for their vision?
I wonder sometimes if those people just don't care about anything more than the weather or the dance. Maybe they are just too lazy to talk about anything else that strikes their fancy. Shit, I don't know. All I know is, I can see more than they can, and it's looks mighty fine to me. I look at my school and I see somethin' unique. I see job that only we can fill. It's like in the Gilgamesh. The gods can't suffer through strife and what-not: they're perfect! But Gilgamesh can suffer and learn. He's got a little somethin' called challenge in his life. We got school. The teachers are useless in our position. We come to school everyday to go through an education so that we can improve our lives. So what if it's hard. Ain't like it's unnecessary! No, this is a good kinda' roughness, like the leather that sharpens the blade. We're all specialists here, doing what only we can, preppin' for our trade, whatever that may be.
School? Yeah, it's rough, no doubt about it. It's one helluva challenge. But I love it. It's unique the whole, wide world over. Where else you gonna' find anything like this? If you know, tell me. 'Cause I'd love to go through somethin' new with new people in my same situation. It's getting closer to the end now. You know it too. But you got your friends with you. They're gonna' help you out when you need it, mark my words. You just gotta' find 'em. And me, well, heh, I'm not stickin' around the people who hate the school that's givin' 'em the friends, that's for sure!
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Appreciate your school; you're lucky. Try not to forget that. You have lasting friendships you made at your school. Don't forget that. And you are part of a community that you'll only be a part of once. Never forget that.
- Grant Callender