what may looks like as if I was fastening my buttons on my graduation dress, I was actually thinking of a few thoughts... I knew in that moment that this was it. My very last year of a self-explanatory building full of immature kids and teachers. I can't believe I made it to the end. All my life (since standard 1, actually) I've always wanted to ditch and give school bye bye. But since I've graduated and finished a chapter of my life... I feel like I want to relive those moments..
When you’re in school, your biggest problems are deadlines for school work and getting the grades you are expected to get. Not to mention the social pressure. You feel as though there is no outside world, that school is it. That your problems are so huge, you fail to realise the current affairs going on on the outside world. The bigger picture.
This is a message to the kids who are still in secondary.
Skip classes, and run around.
Take your time eating your lunch, take as long as you need.
Take the longer way when going to the to the toilet.
When your school holds those events where you are not involved in and you just sit in class like a doodoo head. Climb the gates and get out. Go anywhere else.
Term exams aren’t that important. Finals are.
Question the teachers, always ask lots of questions. Keep asking why. (Then you’ll know they’re humans too, and they don’t know everything
Find your group of friends, even if it’s 1 person. You need a back up to survive.Don’t bully, or get bullied. Stand up for yourself.
Don’t do anything you don’t want to.Just because you don’t get the best grades, doesn’t mean you’re not smart.
Do fall in love. Don’t get pregnant. Don’t trust teachers. NEVER. He/She is not that important. You are. Whatever you do. DO NOT GET CAUGHT.
Take your time eating your lunch, take as long as you need.
Take the longer way when going to the to the toilet.
When your school holds those events where you are not involved in and you just sit in class like a doodoo head. Climb the gates and get out. Go anywhere else.
Term exams aren’t that important. Finals are.
Question the teachers, always ask lots of questions. Keep asking why. (Then you’ll know they’re humans too, and they don’t know everything
Find your group of friends, even if it’s 1 person. You need a back up to survive.Don’t bully, or get bullied. Stand up for yourself.
Don’t do anything you don’t want to.Just because you don’t get the best grades, doesn’t mean you’re not smart.
Do fall in love. Don’t get pregnant. Don’t trust teachers. NEVER. He/She is not that important. You are. Whatever you do. DO NOT GET CAUGHT.
I find that secondary school is the time of your life to rebel. You’re not going to get second chances in the real world. You are in your own world; You are allowed to be oblivious. You are given second chances, third, even fourth. Endless. You are there to make mistakes.
Now, graduated and moving on. I learnt more than what was printed in textbooks, and assigned in homework. School taught me the sense of individuality. It taught me to be my own person, and flow against the current. It showed me how to define myself rather than letting others define me. I educated myself, and painted my own picture. And I’m leaving with the best memories of my life.
And I thank my schools for that.
