School

It starts at a young age
when you first start going you have fun
you like to learn new things
you meet friends
everything is easy
you can pass a test without studying
you actually want to go to school
you want to do your homework
it's fun
but then after your first few years
you get slammed in the face
you are expected to just know things after being told them once
you are expected to remember everything
after all
it will be on the test
the one which you are told to study for
but you have no idea how to actually study
you still enjoy seeing your friends and going to school
but soon enough that will change
you are expected to be there everyday
god forbid you miss one day
if you miss one day
you'll be behind everyone else
you start getting hours of homework from every class you have
having tests everyday
you'll be expected to be able to learn at the same pace as everyone else
and if you don't
well you're *******
eventually you will despise going to school
dread it
you'd rather be in the hospital
or dying
you are ridiculed if you get lower than100%
on top of everything
if you don't do extra curricular activities
then you're not a balanced student
if you can't handle eight hours of homework and two or more hours of a sport
then how are you supposed to handle the real world?
so you try to 'balance' your life
oh and if you can't handle all of that and a social life
you're a geek
so you grit your teeth and down a few cups of coffee and hope your hands don't shake too much
after all you have to write that thousand word essay tonight
along with four pages of calculus
and science
and a foreign language
and what ever else
if you're lucky you'll make it through every thing
but if you're like me
you'll be so stressed out by all of it
you physically can't do it
it's not that you don't want to do it
but you'll just stare at it
like a foreign object
you're mind blanks out
you start to panic
all of sudden you have no ******* idea what you're doing
you're up until it's time to get up
but you've only done one assignment
you feel stupid
you're a failure in your mind
you start to fall behind
your teachers pull you outside the class
they ask you why you aren't doing as well as you were before
you want to tell them
you're a suicidal mess
you can't look at your homework with out having a panic attack
but you can't
so you just simply tell them
you don't know
and they just shake their head