If there was one thing I could change about how I was raised its that I wish nobody ever told me I was smart. Practically everybody did when I was a kid. My parents were so proud that reading came easy to me, teachers were always praising me for being the smart kid, friends of family would mention it as well. I really wish they had all just shut the fuck up and minded their own business. I wasn't smart. I didn't even know how to do anything, how could I be smart? I was a fucking kid. Kids aren't smart. Kids can't do shit. Kids don't know how the government works, kids don't know how people act to each other, kids don't know the history of the world, what we know about science and what that implies, they don't know any of that stuff. Why do you think they're all so god damn happy? Anyway, I wish nobody would have ever told me I was smart. I wish what I was told was this:
'Marcus, you are good at learning. A great deal of things exist on this Earth, and you have the potential to learn a lot of it, which some others cannot do. Right now, you are a child, you don't know nearly as many things as adults do. A lot happens to a person as they get older, and so many adults know a lot, but that does not mean that they are good at learning. If you use your ability to learn, you will become smarter.'
I'm not sure what else to say now. I really wish school wasn't everything, because there's so much more to life, but anytime anyone talks to me its about school. For once I don't want to talk about school, I don't want to be judged by my grades, I don't want a person to discredit me just because I have a hard time finding motivation to do school work.
A dilemma I run into a lot recently is that if I killed myself it wouldn't be much better than what's happening now, so I might as well just wait and see if someday something happens that makes it all worth it. If not, then at least I waited and saw and then I can go out knowing that life really was just a bunch of shit.
- Marcus
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