Final quote

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.

quiet

It is another day, I have to go to school, and I have to do some tests. I not only have to remember facts that in the real world have little implication but I also have to “express” my opinion through my essay’s in my english class. Considering I don’t get 9’s or 8’s on my essays I do the bare minimum, in my other classes I find that memory practices are the best way to get by and I find that it is helpful in learning how to store knowledge, but in english It is on a random topic, then what?  Though that is just because I am a man of few words and am not very expository and as Winston Churchill said, “Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words the best of all”.  Whether a person feels the need to talk or not is none of my concern but when they do it should be meaningful. Some people just talk to talk and I think that more or less it is a way for us through the way that we grew up to stall until we get old enough and are ready to begin making a name for ourselves.  I try to remain quiet sometimes because I know it’s the right thing to do and do my assigned homework and sometimes I humor some people by talking to them when both of us know we could be doing something better with our time.

I think that in school, and in life it’s better just to keep quiet or if the need arises to say something think it out and then say it. At times, in certain situations it’s better to lay low and not say anything and learn from what’s happening outside of yourself and other times it is good to get an opinion across. Words do carry weight and that should be already known. One of the most common ways to obtain this is having credibility through education or age. People who gain credibility through education give the best kind of knowledge in terms of worldly knowledge like mathematics or geography, but the elderly can help us in the long run by giving us knowledge about life. The way I look at it passing along this knowledge can help in developing a person’s ability to express what they think. In conclusion it is important for persons words to be meaningful.

Respect

Respect

As the sun sets and a new day starts, I wonder what can be done to earn respect. Whether consciously or subconsciously, people ask themselves this at some point. As Winston Churchill once said, “We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect”. In my experience there are two ways to try and gain this; be a radically concrete person in ideals or be a people person. Isn’t Eugene v. debbs remembered through history as a radical? Nowadays that seems to be lost for people to realize that they can be against a person’s beliefs, but don’t stick to it because they can’t do anything about it.

Examples I can offer are teachers. We all had a teacher that we thought wasn’t completely right at everything. Is it ok to have an opinion and think they’re wrong? How about tell other people they’re wrong? That’s where the opinion stops in most cases, but it was a nice try to try and follow the road less traveled. Myself being a high school student and not having a degree in anything, not having enough connections to be an effective people person to maybe get a job, the question now is how can I gain respect?

Respect is a two sided coin. On one side I feel that it is for a person to be known by other people as strong in certain respects. On the other hand as I asked other people what respect is, it is to have thoughtfulness or consideration for someone. Does that mean they’re lesser in character? It is not that giving respect isn’t a good thing, but that it’s when other people don’t return it there is a problem. I have respect for some people because of their character, sometimes I don’t’ have respect for some people but I don’t degrade a person in my own mind by reducing my respect for them. Everyone has their own problems and it is not honorable to misjudge a person out of their own immediate feelings. If you are good at English where I may not be perfect then I respect that, if you have higher level calculus than I do then good, I will be at my desk working as usual trying to better myself, but it is not right to think that I am any lesser than any other math student. Give respect where it is due but don’t use it against anyone.

success

What does it mean to be successful? Successful as the dictionary describes it as “having achieved wealth or eminence,” but does that mean that ordinary people that aren’t mega millionaires aren’t successful? That question is up for debate but the standard and surefire way to being successful is to always be working. Thomas Jefferson once said “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing”. Well then where are all our expensive yachts? Oh, wait...most people who finished their education can’t afford one. But those people all worked towards satisfying the education system, we have our certification that we know how to do calculus, engineering, and simple long division… where are our fortunes?

Whatever you have been told is a lie. Other than knowing how to file paperwork and write an essay whatever knowledge that is taken in should be on a person’s own and meaningful. Everyone wants to be successful, I don’t care whether writers lament on their feelings, because it is a hindrance not only to themselves but a bother to people reading it, because remember their wasting time reading it. I don’t care whether a person wants to know who I am because what good does that make…nothing, nothing at all, in which if I answer that question then we’re both wasting time. Start working, I say, because it’s going to pay off in the end and never forget that school doesn’t teach everything.

What if a person just can’t seem to invent/copyright a major good or service? Well then that person better be a good people pleaser because they’re going to have develop social skills. Shocker. Reduced on having to cope with people not to mention their personality to begin a job or pursue to improve their occupation status. It shouldn’t have to be that way; honest work can get you a lot of things. It should be solitary work so that we can feel in ourselves that we do deserve success in the end. Not so much as to be anti-social but that if ever a person gets to a low point in their lives they can say to themselves that they have worked all their lives for success and won’t quit now. It never mattered what the pessimists say because they most likely are too busy glooming over life than trying to make it better. It is true that as long as a person is doing then it’s wonderful what’s accomplished.