It was a while since I spoke to one of my friends. He came over, and told me he dropped out of high school. He isn’t the first person that has told me this, and won’t be the last. Either way it’s very upsetting. I asked, “Can you return to high school?” and he replied, “yes, but I don’t want others to see me because they know I left.” He is afraid of returning to school, but he wants to. I could see it in his eyes. I told him, “I think you would be very brave to return to high school.” Fear drives many of us, as it drove him to drop out and not return to high school. Later on he told me that he was doing nursing and was helping provide for his family. Sometimes the people that we need aren’t in our lives, but it is up to you to do something about it. He could’ve just stayed away and never gone back to schooling, but he looked at his options and took hold of his life again, without fear.
- Stefannie
Posts Tagged ‘The Real World’
High school drop out
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Fight The Status Quo
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Whenever I talk to people about politics, it tends to focus on what they don’t like about our government. People on the right or left both have issues that upset them, and one major complaint I hear is about how dysfunctional our Congress has been in the last few years. The weird thing is, most people who say this are resigned to the dysfunction. They don’t think they can change it, and they don’t do anything to try. Obviously, they can’t just change the constitution or kick all congressmen out of office. But regardless of what your politics are, you can try to implement them by voting or volunteering. If you’re going to complain, then you should actually do something. Just because the status quo is pretty depressing doesn’t mean you should avoid thinking about the situation altogether. If you want things to get better, then you have to play a part.
- Will
Opportunities: Take It or Leave It?
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
You must be thinking: “Oh I know this! I must take every opportunity available to me!” See, that’s what I thought before, too. However, there is a careful thought process that must take place before taking an opportunity. To start, you must be sure it’s actually something you’d be interested in, after all you may be spending a large amount of time doing what it may require of you. Second of all, make sure it fits into your schedule — if you have 10 different other things going on, none of them will get the full attention they deserve if you take up more things. Lastly, make sure you have the willpower to be dedicated to it or else it will just look bad on your part that you took the chance from someone that wanted it more and would have done better. Although this thought process is important, it should never take too long because in the case that you come to the conclusion that you want this opportunity, you want to get it before others do.
- Vivian
Take ownership of our generation
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Look at our generation today, look at the failures of our education, the failures of our economy, look at the unemployment rates! Listen! Listen to the chants of the Occupy movement, in Chicago, in New York, in Seattle, in Canada, France, China, … We have had too much injustice done to our generations and it’s time for us to respond, take actions, be responsible to ourselves by making our government be the true representatives of our voice. On December 2nd 1964, Mario Savio, on the step of University of California, Berkeley, said “There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part; and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you are free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.” If you do not stand up for yourself, who will?
- Phy