What Students Really Need to Hear
It’s 4 a.m. I’ve struggled for the last hour to go to sleep. But, I can’t. Yet again, I am tossing and turning, unable to shut down my brain. Why? Because I am stressed about my students. Really stressed. I’m so stressed that I can only think to write down what I really want to say — the real truth I’ve been needing to say — and vow to myself that I will let my students hear what I really think tomorrow.
This is what students really need to hear:
First, you need to know right now that I care about you. In fact, I care about you more than you may care about yourself. And I care not just about your grades or your test scores, but about you as a person. And, because I care, I need to be honest with you. Do I have permission to be…
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May You Continue To Shine
In life I have learnt a profound lesson of how not to treat people. I wouldn’t have learnt this without the help of some wonderful people who made my life a living hell. Being bullied for 14 years was nightmare, but the profound goodness that came out of that….I learnt how to take life by the horns and truly live. So today I honour my assholes and bullies because without them I wouldn’t know what it meant to be free. ❤
FUCK IT!
The pain it hurts today the fucking silence is killing me I am drowning and I don’t know how to escape. How ? How do I free myself? Legally age is suppose to be a freedom, but fuck it nothing works no age, no law nothing frees you. You try independence really try to make a difference try to earn something….Guess what the opportunity gets suppressed, locked a metal prism with no escape! Why? because selfishness suffocates it there! FUCK IT I AM DONE! I am finished with trying make people in the world the most proud of me! To them I say good bye! Goodbye to the daughter they loved, goodbye to the persona that sought their approval, goodbye fuck it I am done.
No more with the trying to find my pride in them. Stopping with the pain that comes with disappointment. I can’t take the hurt that blinds my eyes every night. I am FUCKING DONE! These words carry my last hope, they go lie in death with who I was and who I am no more. Simply a blank slate with black words, occupies my mind now. No more approval, no more childish innocence. I am grown if that means saying bye to my innocence in order to grow well then fuck it I will!
Good bye happiness in others! I am doing this for me now! Because I realized even the people you care most about care FUCK ALL for you. So good bye love,emotion and tears, I dry them with these words and leave them here. ❤
In the Silence I Hope You See
Silently speaking my truth, its funny I thought my username fits me. In silence, I sit and think, in silence my voice is lost to miscommunication, in silence you don’t listen, in silence we walk past one another, in silence there is no space to feel to understand and to express.
I use silence as a metaphor for that space between you and me, the space where meaning is lost and words spoken are never understood. You don’t understand me and I waste my time explaining in silence, because you don’t want to get it and I don’t want you to know. In a space where we are all to self consumed with our voices and our thoughts, those we love get lost in the silence. There need for our attention, lost in the suffocation of the quiet in place between I don’t know and never mind.
I love that term never mind. Never mind the pain, never mind the truth, never mind my thoughts, never mind my perception. You wouldn’t care for it anyway. Why ? Because you don’t want to. It takes up to much of your time to care. And the thought of trying to understand tires you out, it takes you away from your distractions, those toys that seem to have more of your attention than I can grasp.
It’s okay though, I don’t blame you the silence can be extremely loud, it blocks out all other voices because God forbid you tried to listen. I guess that’s why I write I hope where your ears have failed your eyes will not. Perhaps instead of be made deaf by the silence, I hope the quiet will finally help you see.
Just trying to make sense of it 