On Goldfish
and why Highschool is not the real world
Greetings my fellow subjects (to what exactly doesn’t matter — me or the system, who cares…), since I’m bored and have nocing better to do than rage on the internet, I have finally decided to grace you with my first blog- entry.
Now most of you reading this are probably no longer in Highschool but many have been through these troubled times and to all those who are still there… I feel sorry for you but there are some good news ahead.
I just recently (like totally) graduated from this horrid place and had the shocking realization that had been in the back of my head for way longer only that I chose to ignore it: Highschool — and everything in it- is not the real world. It is more like a miniature version of the real world — but twisted in many ways.
You have social and hirarchical structures — Teachers and Students/ Students amongst themselves — and they are all, without exception, made by the society there as a whole (based on power, control and general human social stupidity) just like the real world so far. Only that in this microcosmos- this small pond full of Goldfish- the company is limited, the chances are highly unequal and therefor rules of hirarchy are a bit different…
From an early age you learn to obey the god-given rule that is represented by the teaching staff and you might even learn to fear it since they have the power to sabotage your life by giving you bad grades or even call your parents, making your private life miserable as well. But with time, you should grow up to be an expert in pleasing them or at least slipping under the radar to live your quiet life .
Then there are the other students who, regardless of what kind of person you are, happen to be pure hell for the most part. You can either join in the race for the best grades and being the most loved by the teachers — giving you the best chances for the REAL life but also most problems with the other goldfish in your pond since you are literally pissing off EVERYONE of them (the one kind because you are unwanted competition and the second kind simply because you are obviously smarter than them and they don’t like it.) Granted: this is the best way to be- for the real world. But not for the Highschool-Pond... because normal laws don’t count there and this small sample of teenage Goldfish — they will make this kind feel like they are doing something wrong for the whole time.
If you are the other type of person of course then…congratulations, you may join the race for the most popular kid in school — a title so upperly irrelevant in real life, you’ve just signed up to waste all of thour youth trying to appeal some idiotic pre-mature moddel of a perfect “cool” Kid, these stupid teenage goldfish-samples have come up with… and guess what: it’s mostly about drinking and being abnoxious and you will totally regret everything when you are out of school since it really stops being cool after you’re 15 …but no one tells you that- there’s no intelligence in this swarm of goldfish, it’s just hormones.
Now if you ever actually get OUT of this little pond and enter the much much bigger one that is the real world…you will find that all of these strucures suddenly crumble and everything you were in highschool is utterly irrelevant to all the new goldfish around you.
Of course you are still surrunded by these mindless creatures. And the basic rules of hirarchy, you trained so perfectly in school still apply. But now the hirarchy itself is a completely different one. Suddenly you realise, all these “big” fish from school — teachers, staff, etc. — are all really tiny goldfish on the long run and what is even better: THEY have to stay in their little pond for ever while you have the very likely chance to become just as big out here and either return a big fish (become a teacher) or become an even bigger one by staying in the open sea.
As to the other students: Exiting the safe little pond of highschool, you will most likely loose those idiots in the big swarms and will eventually forget about them — the first type will grow to be independent big …tuna or something, the others who have already had their best years in highschool mostly stay tiny goldfish but that’s not even important — and that was maybe one of my biggest realizations: none of them matter anymore since you are not confinded to live in that tiny space with them anymore.
But most relevant of all are the new rules in the open sea — which finally and truly separate the microcosmos from the real world. Suddenly you can become what ever YOU want and making an effort is actually valued by most of our Outer-Goldfish-Society while premature brainwashed drinking idiots get ignored at best. You are also free to make your own decisions but have to take responsibility for that small goldfishy life of yours as well —
And who knows…maybe you will even discovere that you weren’t a goldfish at all like everyone in school told you to be because it’s just easier for teachers to have you fit in with the rest and swim amongst the big swarm. Maybe you were born shark and can now finally turn your back on these goldfish from the pond — becoming big and independent in the open sea, just like you knew, you were supposed to from the start. (…ok unlikely- most are still goldfish but uuuhm …you can be a big goldfish! A big big scary goldfish! :D)
1) remember: exiting the microcosmos will totally change your view on things
2)Maybe I shouldn’t have eaten all this sushi, it creates weird thoughts
3.) blub. No one has probably read all of this anyway so I can just write useless stuff down here and no one will notice muhahahahaha
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