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I read my old notebooks dating 2003 or so and I opened this sorta big nostalgic wound. These exercises they made us do were like absolute garbage. I’m sorry, but Google taught me more than school and my dad. I do appreciate that they wanted me to learn, and become a better person, but they then left comments on my notebooks like: “You read very good but… how quiet! We almost didn’t hear you” or “You have to read a little louder… very good.” Gosh, so annoying. I truly and honestly don’t know what they expected of us kids when we were kids, like don’t they realize the mind of a kid is just complete black? Other thing that I like to mention, I like my drawings a little bit more than the answers I gave to the problems, which mind you, I still did decently good at them; but my drawings from after kindergarten definitely got better, and the ones I did on kindergarten were mind numbingly trash… like, I feel sorry for my teacher now that I think about it. I didn’t wanna continue opening the other old ones… because the thing with nostalgia is, that it feels good and intense the very first seconds, and then it starts to wash out. Like, why would I want to cling to things like that from the past (mind you, it’s still a great feeling when you get to open something you experienced so old and touch it after 20 years), when I could literally feel nostalgic about the entire earth being here for so long? Out of all the things, am I telling myself that I want to feel nostalgic about some garbage notes my teachers used to put on my notebooks? No. Plus, they told us to write “Sacred heart of Jesus… in you we trust,” but to be fair it was a religious school but still! That should be child abuse everywhere, and I hope in the future it is badly seen to indoctrinate people into following Jesus. I swear, Google taught me more about life than any schools of today could have… this stuff needs to modernize; truly and sincerely let’s have a moment of silence for all the victims of past systems of education. You learn about life living life, or you get a freaking iPad and figure stuff out. It might not seem like much to you all, but to me, I opened pandora’s box; some of you weren’t even born. No chance to remember some things with precision, but those things came back to me the moment I opened those notebooks. Some of my scribbles were there too; like for example, there were a bunch of 1 and 2s written there for no reason, or a bunch of 3s, or even a heart (which was the first thing I saw when I opened the first notebook; could love have been real all along?) There was a question about why do we think men want to explore space, and I answered “because I want to learn about more planets,” admittedly, not a great or fascinating answer… pretty dull in fact, and some kids could have made it better, but I am the most fascinated about nature and space as of today, and probably forever. Also, facts are on point there, it turns out the year does have 52 weeks like the notebook said! So, it’s not all garbage… just some, if not most, stuff which is exceedingly poorly put together for us kids to learn back then. I don’t wanna miss anything… I feel like I opened some big emotional scar. These days, you can find anything online, and you know what you could also do? Have fun living life. I even forgot how to write in that style of letter. I only learned roman numbers, grammatical language, and a bunch of other stuff that could have taken much less time and effort on the internet as opposed to school. Anyways, truth be with you.
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