I feel like someone who's been submerged in the ocean for a very long time and has just come up for her first breath of air. But the waves are still coming and somehow, the breath I just took doesn't seem like it is enough to sustain me till I somehow get to shore.
Some of our older learners at school will sometimes come and sit in my classroom during one of the intervals, or when their teachers are not at school and I have a free period. They'll come and chat about their lives, the things that happen at school...and as most teenagers do, 90% of what they talk to me about are complaints.
Some days I tolerate it, well, most days. I was a teenager once, and I know that things can seem much bigger than they really are in the mind of an adolescent.
But some days, like the whole of this week, I feel like smacking them. Because they don't realise how easy life is for you when you're young.
Obviously, I do not mean those who find themselves in extremely trying situations...I mean, we have some kids who has alcoholic parents, parents who do drugs in front of them, kids with health problems...the list goes on. And some of these that I've just mentioned, have to, at 12 and 13 years old, be the adults in their families. So, yeah, I get that people sometimes have really hectic problems.
But most of these kids are just so spoiled, and bitch and moan about some of the most unbelievable stupid shit. And I think to myself, 'you little brats don't know what you're in for'. Because life gets so much harder when you grow older.
My sister once told me that we should live our lives with no regrets...not even of the things that we've done wrong in our lives...because then we would be doubting God's plan for us. And I whole-heartedly agree.
But sometimes I wish we didn't have to grow up.
Some of our older learners at school will sometimes come and sit in my classroom during one of the intervals, or when their teachers are not at school and I have a free period. They'll come and chat about their lives, the things that happen at school...and as most teenagers do, 90% of what they talk to me about are complaints.
Some days I tolerate it, well, most days. I was a teenager once, and I know that things can seem much bigger than they really are in the mind of an adolescent.
But some days, like the whole of this week, I feel like smacking them. Because they don't realise how easy life is for you when you're young.
Obviously, I do not mean those who find themselves in extremely trying situations...I mean, we have some kids who has alcoholic parents, parents who do drugs in front of them, kids with health problems...the list goes on. And some of these that I've just mentioned, have to, at 12 and 13 years old, be the adults in their families. So, yeah, I get that people sometimes have really hectic problems.
But most of these kids are just so spoiled, and bitch and moan about some of the most unbelievable stupid shit. And I think to myself, 'you little brats don't know what you're in for'. Because life gets so much harder when you grow older.
My sister once told me that we should live our lives with no regrets...not even of the things that we've done wrong in our lives...because then we would be doubting God's plan for us. And I whole-heartedly agree.
But sometimes I wish we didn't have to grow up.
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