Please Understand Why

The Open One

Dear teachers, 

              Do you think it's okay to stress kids out, then claim that they're just irresponsible when the works not done. It's not, some people have stress outside of school. Like once a teacher told me "maybe just pay attention in class, just not worry about what's happening outside of class. For right now" you have no idea what's going on I can't believe you would say something like that. To a student who has told you what's happening. Our minds just don't dismiss the situation if that's what you think, well first of all your wrong and should rethink that. Maybe put yourself in our shoes you say that it's easier for us students these days but it's really not for many.

Read more, talk less. Let the art speak to you. Allow the words on the page reach you. Dive in, get lost in the letters. It's okay. No one will bother you. Maybe you might learn something new, like parts of a new language. For example, "Bacio Tossico" means toxic kiss in Italian. I would never know that if I didn't read many books. You never know what you write could possibly impact someone, or even just interest them. So, write and share it. Get lost in the words, let it flow out of you, dump your mind onto to the page or screen. It doesn't hurt, I promise.

The same girl you see in the hallway all happy and bubbly is also the same girls who cry herself to sleep. The same girl who stresses herself out, just to get by and manage. Yet you never would see that cause all you can see is that same bubbly girl who hyper and energetic all the time. Everyone you see isn't exactly how they seem. That poor boy who looks like a nerd and weirds you out is actually depressed but very smart well trying to impress his mother who was gone with the army most of his life. You would never know what's going on with someone else that tell you. Don't be so quick to assume things. That girl you all claim has slept with the whole football team is really a rape victim, her father did this to her, and that's the only way she knows how to express herself. Everyone is quick to judge someone, why don't you stand back for a minute and think about how it's going to affect them, or think about yourself are you really better than them? That teacher who extremely kind and is always worry and caring about their student, just want to makes sure their okay, cause they how life is sometimes, they experienced it before and knows how bad things get. The world is and will always be a bad place until more people start standing up to other and letting their voice be heard. You always think you're the best because you can beat someone else or you're smarter because you scored higher than them on something that's not always the case. You just make you smaller than them cause you're rubbing it in everyone's faces. Maybe instead of judging just look around, you're just like everyone else.

The Open One,

Unknown