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Hello there. For those of you that don't know me, I'm a final year 6th Form/Senior High student. Come June, I'll have graduated, and will have left school life behind forever. University may be education, but it sure as hell isn't anything like school.
Wow, shouldn't I be happy? Just 2 more months and I'll be free forever right? School sucks blah blah. Well guess what?
I've come to realise over the years that school is the most incredible experience you could ever hope for. The friends, the memories, the atmosphere. You think you're being oppressed? Get out in the real world and the workplace and think again. People say a lot of things make a man. Well, I think your school experiences make up for 90% of what you become. In those crucial years of early formation, we discover ourselves, and open our eyes to the world gradually (or go on the internet and learn in 5 minutes).
You may find it weird that I'm so sad to let go, but perhaps you might think differently when you've left school. There's a whole unofficial code and atmosphere underlying school life, and most of us have a personal harmony we build with the codes. All the traditions, the little things, they'll all disappear, as I walk out the doors for the last time in June.
I've had a great time in both elementary school and high school, never not taking a decision, no matter how mischievous, and for this reason, I feel I have no regrets about wasting my youth. I've also academically achieved, so I guess I don't have to worry that I misbehaved too much. Despite all this, there's still so much I feel I could do and could have done. So much I want to do now that I don't have time for, and of course, it'll all be over in June.
What I want everyone at school who reads this to think about is whether they're really so big and grown up, and whether they're really ready to move out and face the world. Why do you think school sucks? Do they work you too hard? Not enough freedom?
School gives you the ultimate liberty. The liberty of youth. You think you're so oppressed, but wait until the oppression of responsibility ties a noose around the neck of your soul, and tell me you don't want to be a child again.
Practically every adult will tell you that childhood is the best time of your life, but you always argue back and say "I wanna be an adult and then I can do what I want."
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You have far less freedom as an adult, realise this now. I'm not saying being an adult doesn't have it's perks, pleasures and satisfactions, and adulthood is still an incredible experience.
However, don't ignore the incredible thing called youth. Milk it, don't waste it trying to always act grown up. Have you ever heard the phrase "act your age?". Yeah, that's right, if you're 15, you don't need to act like a 20 yo, admirable though that may be, you'll regret not making the most of that period you had when you COULD get away with doing stuff a 15 yo would do.
It's all coming to an end for me now, and as I look back with a heavy heart, I want all to know, that school is amazing, childhood is amazing, and that you should never deny yourself the pleasures you're entitled to.
Oh and for good measure
Edit: A response that I think you should all read.
Hello there. For those of you that don't know me, I'm a final year 6th Form/Senior High student. Come June, I'll have graduated, and will have left school life behind forever. University may be education, but it sure as hell isn't anything like school.
Wow, shouldn't I be happy? Just 2 more months and I'll be free forever right? School sucks blah blah. Well guess what?
I've come to realise over the years that school is the most incredible experience you could ever hope for. The friends, the memories, the atmosphere. You think you're being oppressed? Get out in the real world and the workplace and think again. People say a lot of things make a man. Well, I think your school experiences make up for 90% of what you become. In those crucial years of early formation, we discover ourselves, and open our eyes to the world gradually (or go on the internet and learn in 5 minutes).
You may find it weird that I'm so sad to let go, but perhaps you might think differently when you've left school. There's a whole unofficial code and atmosphere underlying school life, and most of us have a personal harmony we build with the codes. All the traditions, the little things, they'll all disappear, as I walk out the doors for the last time in June.
I've had a great time in both elementary school and high school, never not taking a decision, no matter how mischievous, and for this reason, I feel I have no regrets about wasting my youth. I've also academically achieved, so I guess I don't have to worry that I misbehaved too much. Despite all this, there's still so much I feel I could do and could have done. So much I want to do now that I don't have time for, and of course, it'll all be over in June.
What I want everyone at school who reads this to think about is whether they're really so big and grown up, and whether they're really ready to move out and face the world. Why do you think school sucks? Do they work you too hard? Not enough freedom?
School gives you the ultimate liberty. The liberty of youth. You think you're so oppressed, but wait until the oppression of responsibility ties a noose around the neck of your soul, and tell me you don't want to be a child again.
Practically every adult will tell you that childhood is the best time of your life, but you always argue back and say "I wanna be an adult and then I can do what I want."
...
......
You have far less freedom as an adult, realise this now. I'm not saying being an adult doesn't have it's perks, pleasures and satisfactions, and adulthood is still an incredible experience.
However, don't ignore the incredible thing called youth. Milk it, don't waste it trying to always act grown up. Have you ever heard the phrase "act your age?". Yeah, that's right, if you're 15, you don't need to act like a 20 yo, admirable though that may be, you'll regret not making the most of that period you had when you COULD get away with doing stuff a 15 yo would do.
It's all coming to an end for me now, and as I look back with a heavy heart, I want all to know, that school is amazing, childhood is amazing, and that you should never deny yourself the pleasures you're entitled to.
Oh and for good measure
Edit: A response that I think you should all read.
