This is my final commentary on a quote, I have one more thing to say before summer. I am soon going to be a senior. I feel I have failed myself for not becoming a rich millionaire at a young age like I wanted to be, but I have found forgiveness where I wanted redemption. Sometimes people or officials don’t behave the way they should and you feel failed upon. I feel that way about my age group and the teachers who teach them, all of them know that the teacher just teaches the required material, no jokes or vulgarity, and the students write the notes down with little talking and when the bell rings we all go home. That is not the case now, though where I put up with it I remember to forgive and forget because that is the right thing to do. As Saint Augustine once said “Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again,”. I have found that I was misunderstood and at one point in their lives who isn’t misunderstood?
I lived with this kind of education system going on and am used to being the most productive and happy doing so because it not only gives optimal circumstances for productive thought, but further reinforces that school is a pathetic place of misconception for the pathway to success. It is, how I felt, a placeholder that everyone has to go through while the over emotional people wallow in their inability to cope in the back corner of the classroom and I can focus on how to become a success so I can rub it in the teachers faces later for my own reasons, (one being that they would do that to them). Though that’s just the way this system is.
While I lived with this new system where teachers would talk about inappropriate things and the students would either acknowledge it or say nothing, I formed discontent and bitterness because then I believed that I was beginning to exert my knowledge of drafting blueprints, only to be hindered by school. It was their fault and some on my part, though I know that holding a grudge never gets anyone anywhere I forgave them. I have remembered that I have problems of my own, but that I am respectful of other people and their practices. Remembering strengths and weaknesses can help in the path to forgiveness and in moving on to bigger and better things.