It isn't about learning anymore
"When we start to see classmates as threats instead of teammates, we lose what education is meant to build: connection, compassion, creativity" The temples of education have turned into battlegrounds where everyday is a challenge to prove ourselves to be the best of the best. The unrealistic expectations for academic performance, peer pressure, bullying, social status, the sense of inferiority that seeps into us when we see others performing better than us breaks our confidence. The over-the-top expectations we have from ourselves, the dread of not being able to repay even 0.01% of what our parents have given up for us, eats us alive little by little pushing us into an endless void of self-loathing and self destruction. Every friend in the room is a silent-competitor competing with the one they share their secrets with. Chocolates shared among friends taste bitter now, the laughter and joy short lived as the sadistic urge to be at the top rises again. We silentl...