School

It's not so much the education system as people's perception of all who are involved in it that pisses me off.

The exams are being dummed down? Seriously? That's how adults maintain their self esteem, they just slag off your high grades and insane work?

It's not the difficulty level, it's the pressure and the stress and I have reached my tether.

How people think it's okay just to shrug and say 'whatever, it's easy'. How people seem to love just throwing more and more at you until you feel about seven miles deep in complete shit, and you have to use all of your stores of energy to climb out and get a glimpse of the actual world.

It's ridiculous.

What I have to say about school, is that it goes on for far too long. It's when you're youngest that you're your most alive. We're being strapped down in school, made to work through our holidays, strung out so thinly that we nap through our spare time. There is literally no point for us to revel in our youth.

I was going to take a gap year, to actually take all of my naivety and my cute happiness and all of my young spring and use it all, but my parents said no. And what can you do? It's their money, it's their food, everything that you have you get from them. If I say, 'no, I'm taking a gap year', then I'd spend it all in a crappy job, trying to earn enough money to afford the ferry over to Calais.

Why school, and all of its advocates encourage the taking away of the best years of our lives is completely beyond me.

But more than that, it's the bastards who frown at all of us wasting our energy away, saying that in the end, we're not really even worth anything, and that back in their day, it was all so much more valid- they're the ones who I want to throw fish at and spray paint and crack eggs on.

Because they're saying that sacrificing my intensity and my whiz is nothing.

Fuck them.