Education is COOL!

Here goes another one…

I had read Anne’s entry on the 12^th January, 1944 many times. After I read the whole post thoroughly, I want to add on details and knowledge of my own of the last question she wrote, ‘Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?’

Before I answer her question, I want ask, does adults really understand their kids? Do they care whether we are really having any problems besides learning? These came out of me immediately and they keep bouncing off in my head. It seems to me (for those who are in their teens) that our parents seem not to care about anything else than our education and our health. It’s truly confusing that we are discarded from their thoughts of emotions. It’s like they show us love and affection just by a simple hug and kisses. They never, as for me, sat down quietly for a few minutes and just talk about how I feel. I find it lonely and gloomy. Slowly, I decided that I had to hide everything from them and go through all my obstacles ahead of me throughout my teen years.

There was one another question that bothered me, this was brought up by, if I’m not mistaken, Fredrik during class, ‘adults have been kids before, why don’t they understand what their children are doing and seems to discourages it all the time. Do they know it or do they want to hide it? It’s like they have been brainwashed and have no memory of their past. Whenever I ask my parents how their ‘teenhood’ is, they never seem to answer my question clearly. They could’ve gave us a clear explanation, but no, they just said “No, and that’s final!” This phrase is so very unpleasant and ferociously frustrating. All it takes is just one simple explanation to make everything better, but even at their age they still don’t understand how to handle this problem.

As I said it before in my last post, I too can Reach a Bursting Point, we are experiencing puberty and as our bodies are developing, our mind changes too. We may show affection towards others and this is completely normal. This is obviously very hard to tell anyone, especially our parents because to them this is all nonsense and if we’re lucky, we may get a ‘nice’ rebuke. They always said that education is the most important thing when your young, but do they really do that when they were our age. I hardly doubt that.

So there, I answered her question. We all have things going about in our life, well, our personal life. We have souls, not zombies. We have emotions like adults too, but why do they think of us as something that is unnecessary, something that doesn’t contribute to the world (said by Mr. R). We may be small, but we want to be noticed for once, not as kids, but as someone who is taken seriously.   

Today in English class, Mr. R again gave us another writing assignment based on Anne Frank’s Nov 7, 1942 diary entry. After I reread the whole entry again, I have the exact problem as her! Well, at least not that serious.

In spite of Anne being through a hard time when she as developing into a fine young woman, she’s still a little girl in her father’s eye. In her entry, she happened to be in huge trouble over a stupid book. Pim, Anne’s father was simply assuming her youth as her crime. He needn’t to know what happened before even he rebukes her. In this kind of situation, she wrote “I was neither offended nor cross, just miserable.” If it was for me, it would be the same thing. I’m also in my maturing years, during the period I have too been continuously misunderstood. I get told off almost once every single day by my loving parents. It just seems that I don’t get along with anything they agree on, I wanted to stand up for myself once but I never really had the guts to. After all, they’re still my parents and I love them much as they do. I do too understand that they’re still outside working their backs of just to put bread on the table, I know their feelings, I know their pressure, and I absolutely know what their going through, so that’s why I keep the blame for their sake.

What I really have to agree on is the last sentence she wrote, ‘don’t condemn me; remember rather that sometime I too can reach the bursting point’. No kidding! I’m sure everyone has their anger and frustration bottled up till a certain limit when everything just splutters out. Well, after non-stop of complaints and dissatisfaction, I guess that we’ll have to understand better when we grow up. Our thoughts are going through extreme change which affects our social life, it’s a behavior almost all teenagers have to disagree with and avoid grownups. In my opinion, there’s no use of telling them what to do, it’s just the way it is.

Today Mr. R gave us an assignment based on Anne Frank. Imagined that you’re going through World War 2 and you have to leave home and settle down in a secret compartment in a building with nothing but a small bag of stuff. What would you bring? 

To me memories are important, but without things such as entertainment and fun, life would be boring. Sure I will bring some of my memorial items such as photos but it’s not necessary because our family is always together. What I really want to bring are some games such as a pack of cards and a chess set.  By this time, technology won’t come in handy so I refrain myself from bringing such stuff like ipods and laptop.

Even though the world outside is going through complete madness, doesn’t mean that education is over. I would bring a few books to read. This is important to me as I am fond of reading when I’m absolutely bored. I rather study and learn about facts than sitting in front of the calendar crossing off each day that have passed. Last but not least, I want to write everything down in my private and personal journal.

You all may think courage is being physically strong, tough and fierce. Well, let me tell you something, it’s wrong. Courage to me means being brave and standing tall. Those who are small in size and weak doesn’t make them a coward, it’s their courageous and their on-going attitude that made them strong and fearless. Courage may be taking risks but it’s also the ability to confront the world in a different way and have everything in the palms of your hands. Courage is the way of a leading and successful life, but in order to have it is not as easy as buying it off the shelves. It takes years and years of confident built up in you to be used to the shame and gain total control of your life. Don’t ever let fear manipulate your future, owned it and get rid of it in order to have a bright successful future.