back to high school (worst nightmare confirmed)
Teaching is so hard. Want to sleep, can't. I wonder if I really could make a career out of leading a horde of hormone-ridden 16 year olds. They are so emotional it makes me look tame. Today one of my students handed in a journal entry that began,
" It is amazing that more people don't commit suicide or go completely insane everyday. If you actually take the time to consider just how much stress is laid on humans as individuals, it is quite frightening."
His essay was very insightful, but my god, some of the ones that were handed in, (like this one) break my heart.
I remember when I felt that way in high school. The depression just didn't seem like it would end, and I didn't have the skills to help myself out of it. Having a few years perspective it still feels that way sometimes, but at least I know to expect that change will touch my life unexpectedly. And that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Rosie paraphrased it very succinctly:" Express that this emotional turmoil is just an aspect of the human experience. It's a facet of our experience, but just that, only one part. Realism is painful and that's our cross to bear as social beings. However, it's one thing to feel this and get lost in it, and quite another to analyze it. If you have the insight to analyse it, there's a good chance that when you get to the juncture between childhood and becoming adult and you have to either make the decision to become more embittered and be a depressed adult, or move through it and develop into the person you'd like to be, you have a better chance at the latter.
" It is amazing that more people don't commit suicide or go completely insane everyday. If you actually take the time to consider just how much stress is laid on humans as individuals, it is quite frightening."
His essay was very insightful, but my god, some of the ones that were handed in, (like this one) break my heart.
I remember when I felt that way in high school. The depression just didn't seem like it would end, and I didn't have the skills to help myself out of it. Having a few years perspective it still feels that way sometimes, but at least I know to expect that change will touch my life unexpectedly. And that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Rosie paraphrased it very succinctly:" Express that this emotional turmoil is just an aspect of the human experience. It's a facet of our experience, but just that, only one part. Realism is painful and that's our cross to bear as social beings. However, it's one thing to feel this and get lost in it, and quite another to analyze it. If you have the insight to analyse it, there's a good chance that when you get to the juncture between childhood and becoming adult and you have to either make the decision to become more embittered and be a depressed adult, or move through it and develop into the person you'd like to be, you have a better chance at the latter.