Calm Down

On the weekends, I work at a little place called DonutLand. One morning a couple came in and were deciding on donuts, I overheard the woman say something about slivered almond, so I asked, ‘would you like some of those ma’am?’ she responded in a very sharp tone, with, ‘can we have a conversation without you interrupting? Thanks.’ I quickly apologized and remained quiet until I was sure they were talking to me.

I’m not a very emotional person, but when people that I don’t even know; that I’m trying to help, yell at me, I get pretty frazzled. My co-workers and everyone else that has a job serving people, probably feel the same way. I don’t really want to be yelled at before it’s even 8 o’clock in the morning and especially by someone I don’t know. I’m a teenage girl getting up every morning to work, either at school or at my job serving people with a smile. I don’t need sympathy or pity, just for you to treat me the way you would like to be treated. That is the golden rule after all isn’t it?

Food For Thought

For my A.P. language and composition class, we have to write a blog, hence this blog. We also have to have a blog focus, and as of right now, my topic has changed. My topic will now be ‘Food For Thought’. So if you scroll down past this post, my posts will be about high school.

            I know it might be confusing but please don’t freak out in the comments. I will most likely incorporate some high school and teenage aspects into my later posts. Something I might be talking about is stuff like self-harm, bullying, homework, and all the other beautiful things the world has to offer, she said sarcastically.

            Food For Thought, to me, isn’t a very positive subject. So I apologize in advanced if anything on here makes you feel any kind of negative emotions, but these things can’t be left unsaid any longer.

It’s a fair warning.

Lazy

Lazy- adjective,

1)      Averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent

2)      Causing idleness or indolence

3)      Slow-moving; sluggish

4)      High school students

 

We’ve all been called lazy; by our teachers, our family members, or even our friends. High school students are known for being lazy. Everyone says teen agers are lazy. This doesn’t make sense to me, mainly because, as high school students, we- for the most part- have jobs on top of school and homework. So naturally when we school or our part-time job at McDonalds, we just want to relax for a bit.

 

We go to school five days a week for seven hours each day. That’s basically a full time job! If you didn’t get paid for the job you do would you want to do it? Chances are you would say no. no one wants to do work, especially if you’re not getting paid for it.

 

I understand that our education is important. I get that we need to work hard now in order to do well in the future. I also think its ok to be a little bit lazy sometimes. We can’t go and go and go all the time. The human body just isn’t made to do that. Maybe we do over sleep, but is that because we’re lazy, or is it because we stayed up until midnight doing our homework?

Theft

All throughout our lives we see things we want, but for some of us just wanting these items means you have to have them. Being in a school with over 1800 students, there are a lot of different personality traits. Some of which include sticky fingers.

            I know a girl who recently got her phone stolen while eating lunch. But why would someone ever steal a phone? It can be traced or shut off so you wouldn’t have any use for it anyways. I guess you could always sell it but what if they find out it was stolen? There are just so many flaws in this plan, so many ‘what if’s’. I really don’t understand why people steal though. You’re in high school so you can probably get a job and get your own money and expensive items. Don’t you have moral standards anyways? Have you ever thought ‘would I like it if someone stole my hard earned money or connection to the outside world?

            You’re not only stealing someone’s phone or money, you’re also stealing someone’s trust, someone’s faith in humanity and sometimes even in themselves. I’ve never had anything stolen from me but if I did I would have blamed myself for being so careless and stupid when it really was you being careless and stupid.

            So next time you want to take that girls phone or take the rich boys money. Think. Think about what you’re really doing. Think about what you’re doing to them; think about people stealing you’re phone or money; your security. Now think. Is that really worth it?

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Just a Little Advice

Today, the sophomores of Kennedy are taking the plan test which is basically a practice ACT to find out how you would do if you took the ACT right now. Last year at this time I was taking the plan test. I kept over hearing people talk about how “it’s so stupid to take this test” and “oh I’m not going to even try.” I thought it was kind of pointless too but I tried my best anyway. The other day I was sitting down with my counselor talking about college and she brought up the plan test. She said it kind of predicts how I’ll do on the ACT or SAT and apparently my score was above average. I wouldn’t have even known that had I not tried and neither would my counselor.

            What I’m trying to say is, most kids think it’s dumb because as sophomores you’re not really looking at college or anything yet. But as juniors you have to look at colleges and start planning for your future. That’s a lot of pressure and responsibility, sophomores don’t know how crucial this plan test is yet. It’s not their fault either. They’re still just babies compared to the rest of us.

A very wise women once told me that you change from the time you turn 16 to the time you turn 17 or maybe a little bit after that, you become more mature, more understanding of your surroundings and more accepting. This is one of the truest things I’ve ever heard. From birthday to birthday we don’t feel older, but now I feel older. I feel more mature, I feel 17. I know this is going to sound weird, but kids don’t understand that they just want to be cool and say “oh yeah the test is dumb I’m so cool.” I didn’t realize until now that we were the ones being dumb.

So I’m going to end this with a word of advice to the sophomores. Don’t be dumb. It may not seem important now, but you have to take this stuff at least a little bit seriously. It’s ok to have fun, but be serious when it comes to your future because your actions in the past will always catch up with you. You’ll thank me later. ;)

 

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Know the Signs

Recently, I’ve been talking to a girl who gets bullied pretty badly in school. I was texting her the other day and asked her what she was doing. She responded with a simple one word answer, writing. Writing what? I ask generally curious, I enjoy writing as well. Her response shocked me. I expected ‘oh just something for school.’ But she said ‘A suicide note.’ This girl is 14, and she is so willing to take her life or hurt herself because she gets bullied so badly. But why? Why does this poor girl get bullied? Because she knows who she is. She knows she’s a lesbian. And people use that against her.

She isn’t the only one though. She isn’t the only poor helpless soul getting shunned for being who she is, and that’s a problem. One person getting picked on, let alone the hundreds upon thousands of girls and boys who get ridiculed because of who they are. Now I want you to ask yourself. Are you guilty? Are you guilty of making these people feel worthless? Were you even aware what you were doing? Probably not. But now you will be, here are some signs that someone is considering giving up on everything; giving up on themselves.

One sure sign that someone is considering this is if their giving away (or throwing away) their possessions. I’m not just talking about giving their old clothes to charity, I’m talking about them giving away things they love and adore to people they love and adore. Like giving away their collection of bottle caps to their little siblings. They spent a lot of time with these objects and the people they love know how important these things are to them.  Before you confront them though, you should probably look for other sings.

Something else you should look for is drastic change, like if this girl or boy were to cut their hair or dye it. Maybe they stopped wearing makeup, maybe they started wearing makeup. It doesn’t matter what it is, there are a lot of possibilities. But if something does change, you’ll notice; everyone will notice. After all that’s what they want. They want someone to notice them. Maybe even a simple compliment would be enough to stop them.  Maybe it wouldn’t. But it doesn’t hurt to try.

Sometimes these people have what they call ‘suicide plans’ which basically means they have a plan to commit suicide. They know how, they know where, and they know when. Some things they might say are “if something ever happens to me I want you to know this” or “don’t worry I won’t bother you for long” obviously this is something that should concerning anyways, but if you just brushed it off as nothing, well here you go. It’s not nothing.

I think the most helpful hint in this situation would be the verbal hints. It’s also one of the first signs, this means they still have hope for themselves, hope that someone will help them. These include phrases like “I wish I could just die” or “I’m thinking or committing suicide”. Of course these are the most helpful because they’re admitting it, they’re admitting they want to die, they’re crying for help. Begging for it even.

The last sign I will share with you today is simple. They take risks, like walking in front of traffic perhaps. This indicates that they don’t care if they die or not. If it’s an accident, cool, because if it’s an ‘accident’ they don’t have to think too much about it. They don’t have to think about who it’s affecting because they didn’t have to take their own life, someone took it for them. Everyone will think it was simply an accident. They don’t want people to know what really happened; they don’t want to admit it not even to themselves.

Of course these aren’t all the signs someone is considering something crucial like this. If you know someone who might be suicidal please talk to them, let them know you’re there for them. This might be the turning point for them. You might be able to save a life.

For more signs of suicide or suicide help, please visit: http://www.teensuicide.us/articles2.html

 

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