Letters & Rants

Rant #2

       Sometimes I don't want to finish high school. I just want to sit in my bedroom surrounded by blankets and pillows doing what I love. I daydream about what my life would be like if I became a huge author selling out books. I mean you don't really need school to be an author. You just need yourself and your thoughts.  I dream of accepting an award for books. I imagine holding all my thoughts in just pages. I want to have people up at 2 AM reading my story so hard they forgot they have school or work. I could only ever dream.
       I can't just leave school though. My parents have given a lot for me to have an education. Is school really the education I need though? Everyone says that without school I'll be nothing. I'll be flipping fake McDonalds meat counting every penny to pay rent with. Is that really true though? Is school as great as parents think? Because school has me stressing to the point where I don't want to wake up to have to face my teachers. School has kids killing themselves because they can't take it anymore. School is just a mountain of struggle and a lot of my tears. What does school really do? I'm not being prepared for the future.
       I just wonder what life would be like if I just wrote without teachers shoving useless things in my head. Unless a cop stops me and tests me on geometry. Is school really all that great?