Today I post my second blog entree. Though the day is hardly over, I feel nothing else exciting will happen. If this isn't the case, than I can always make another post.
I am the tormented twelve year old trapped in a perplexing life of annoyance, hipocracy, difficulty, and unfairness. I do too well in school, people think my life is all fun and games. They think wrong. My days grow harder, my life gets more painful, my anger grows stronger. I have friends to depend on, and I feel that is it. My teachers don't like me, nor will I ever understand what goes on at my home life. They think I have it all, there is so much pressure, write an essay, do your homework, do this math, write this research paper. My life is looked at by my peers and parents as if it were some sort of a joke. A free ride. It's not.
11-17-02
A wet sunday morning. I wake up late than usual. Have a good breakfast, and go about with my daily life. I can't say today was hard, or sad, more confusing. Like the super triangles. You spend forever counting how many triangles there are exactly. You seem overly confident you know what your doing. You will get this right, and no one else will. You finish the problem and come up with an answer. You still have time before you submit your answer. Rather than check it, you goof off. You want a break, you've worked hard counting those triangles, and just want to lie back. When the buzzer sounds, you turn in you answer that your sure is correct. The procter checks it. You are one off. You spent all that time counting those triangles. You feel confused. You had just forgotten one triangle, that threw the rest of your counting off. You let out a big sigh. The procter than explains the problem to those who got it incorrect. The procter shows you a way to do the same problem in a much quicker and easier fashion, and the answer is always garaunteed. The feeling that comes over you is not sorrow, anger, or depression, it's confusion. The emotion that will never fail to annoy you. That is what I feel today.
It is around 9:40, I talk to my friend on instant messenger. My very good friend. A best friend. One known for a good portion of my life. It's my friends birthday, and he doesn't invite me to his party. Rather than me, he invites his new friend. One that he doesn't know as well as me. The feeling could be jealousy, or it could be anger. he has always been over at my house. Eating food from my pantry, sleeping over in my room. I do not get repaid, I get blown off. Anger would have been the emotion to fill in the blank, but I decided against it. There is no sense to be angry.
I bought him a present earlier, Despite the fact he rarely buys presents, or did anything for me on my birthday, or Christmas. It's my kind heart again. I sacrifice and spend money on him. My thanks is his mooching and rudeness. Though I do not have to get him the present, I feel obliged to do it. Sacrificing what could be my own happiness for someone elses, especially when I get no thanks, is such a bad feeling. At school they say helping people gives you a great feeling. That was never true for me. Sure, it gives the other person happiness, but for me, sadness reigns. There is sometimes an exception where you feel just great knowing that youve made a persons day. And they are greatful. But on so few occasions does that ever, or will that ever happen. In school they tell us to work together and be good people. On so few occasions does this work either. At my point in time, anyone is willing to backstab you for their welfare. For their benefit. At my point in life, Darwin was right. The goal is to be strong and intelligent. Survival of the fittest. Not survival of the sissies. In lacking one of those qualities, you are not the individual the group looks for.
I bring my friends back to my house. The same friends. They are rude. More rude than usual. I don't comment. I don't try to control. If I am brutally honest like him, maybe I will hurt his feelings and lose a friend. Being brutally honest is a quality you either love or hate. It can be really useful, or it can be really hurtful. One who can be assertive, but not too aggresive, is the ideal individual in my life.
My day follows very slow after. Nothing to compare, nothing worth mentioning. I play video games, surf the internet, watch t.v., read, and most anything else a kid would do. This is the most normal part of my life. At school I work like no one else, socially, I'm a nice weakling. When the teachers see someone exihbiting good character, they give them a pass to get an award and attend a special breakfast. Though I exihbit good character traits everday, I am never noticed. I could be a rug, or a doormat. No one notices what I do nice and right. Just what I do wrong. I am not rewarded for doing well, or doing extra, I am punished for making the slightest mess up. The life of an overacheiver is not easy. It is full of expectations and standards. Why are standards for me different? It is part of my sick luck. Why is it that when I write an essay, my teacher docs me points for it not being interesting. Than, when I compare it to a worse essay, a boring, repetative one, they get a better grade. how are people supposed to menatally advance if different standards are applied to different people? Wouldn't that keep them in the same spot forever and ever? Or will a day come when something is expected, and they are not prepared.