We're not alive.

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive." -Mel Brooks


When reading this quote, all I can think is, "We are not alive". We sit in desks all day. We ask to go pee. We are escorted to class when tardy. How is this living by Mel Brooks’s definition? When we jump around and flap our arms we are thought to be crazy hooligans with no manners.


Other than only not having the freedom to be hyper every once in awhile, we also don't even have the freedom to make our own decisions and think for ourselves. Apparently, when an assignment doesn't involve a textbook then it isn't an assignment. When we are forced to think outside of our small school and look at our whole community or world, then we are just wasting time. When our thoughts don't agree with others, than we are wrong. At least that's what I hear...


Well maybe that is how High School has to be...for some. Those who can't handle the maturity of a decision on their own may need a textbook to guide them. But for me, I need a lesson which will help get me to "real" life. I need to learn to make big girl decisions so that when I truly get to be alive, I will know how to live. I would think all High School students need that push into society, that guidance into our own goals and projects, but maybe I'm wrong...