Personal Experience That Changed My View On Education

Nothing along the lines of severity I’ve heard elsewhere, but here goes nothing. In my sophomore year of high school (the last full year in person pre-COVID), whilst I was skipping class I had come across some guy who used to be a straight A’s honors student. He was skipping too, so since he hadn’t been in school in a while, and since we haven’t talked in a minute, I decided to skip with him and talk about nonsense and life at the time. While we were sitting in that staircase, I had to know why he didn’t really show up for classes anymore considering he did so well the entire first year. He told me “I don’t have a real reason to anymore.” Though this seems like a harmless enough statement, it changed the way I kind of viewed how I should approach doing things for the future of myself. Sadly it was the last time I have seen him since, as it was roughly the end of the school year, and since he was already failing horridly, there was no more reason to keep going that year. After that, we had a month of school and then COVID started around the world around November/ December. Though I never seen him again, he really did change something in me, even though it seems kind of cliche. My junior and senior year of high school, though tedious and highly unrewarding, I finished my two years above 95 average. The reason I changed so drastically when he said that is because I have a “why” because I have half my families names on my back. I can’t really afford to mess up and lose what hope we have left for the generations to come. More specifically, I have two younger siblings and a niece who watch my every move, especially with them growing up, so if I don’t succeed, there’s not too many good role models here, so I think I can bear that burden long enough. So yea, that’s my life changing revelation when it comes to my relationship with my studies.