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 silently reminisce about the forgotten days when marks used to be just numbers. Nonetheless, that has changed. The marking system unwillingly divides the students-cultivating competition rather than collaboration. United we stand divided we fall- a lesson we can't seem to learn.

With years gone by in this futile competition,  we all stand close on the last day of school, bound by friendship, divided by competition, staring at each other with glossy eyes wondering if it was all worth it, because in the end, even after everything, we still lost it.




-saikedelics🦋.

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