STAY REAL

Hey S

Maybe u gon see this - a small goodbye

Since u left i changed and now its time to move forward once again

Have been alone ever since, thinking about you & stuff. Didnt show interest for other girls since i have never lost mine for you. And truth to be told, i never will

After 5+ years i think its fine to maybe start something new, open up my heart a little and let new air in

I know i still love you, in my heart real love doesnt fade its just getting drowned by numbness to feel less pain

Have felt a lot and thought a lot, still think i should have done more but well, it just … ended. Accepting that wasnt easy, especially if u hoped to everything get better if u really want to work on it - i guess i failed in this regard

Today, i‘m working more than ever on myself and finally feel like posting smh somewhere u might have a 0000.1% chance of reading - thank you again for many precious memories, i promise on my name they are engraved in my soul

If we ever randomly see each other, lets smile! There has been so much more than only worries in our past. :) thank u for feeling smh for me back then

Yours,

mikz

10/27/21

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girlfromenglishclass:

People who complain that school doesn’t teach them anything they can use in real life often have severe misconceptions about what real life is. Chiefly, that they’re already in it.
Yes, we could teach you how to fill out a tax form or pay bills, but I promise these things are actually quite unchallenging. Like, I could teach you, but it’d take like 20 minutes; you’ll be fine.
The biggest problem is that these complaints make “real life” seem to just be 1. acquire job 2. know how to do job. And that’s important, but it’s a small fraction of life. If all my students have is a job and the ability to pay bills, then I haven’t done justice to their education.
School also teaches you how to care about things. How to know when you must care. What to do with that care. You need to be equipped with critical thinking skills to decide what should be deconstructed, what you really believe and don’t believe instead of what you’re told. You need to know the history of these things to make informed choices. And yes, even math, even when they put letters in it, is giving you a mind. It’s working and wiring your logical reasoning that will guide you.
The main thing people who make this complaint don’t understand is that when we talk about children as the “next generation, the future” it’s literal. We won’t be here forever! We will die! And then it’s YOU who is in charge! You decide!
You decide how society changes. You decide what stays and what gets left behind of popular ideology. So, you go to school, and we teach you everything we know. Yes, even that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and lines from Shakespeare’s sonnets and what year the civil war happened. Because it matters.
It matters because we know it! It’s knowledge! And if we don’t teach it, it dies, like we will, so now it’s yours. Decide what you teach the next ones. And if that’s just how to get a job and pay taxes, well, we did our best.

As a future teacher, yes

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"It is essential to get out of the habit of conceiving of culture as encyclopedic knowledge, and, correspondingly, of man as a receptacle to be crammed with empirical data, with crude, unconnected facts which he must file away in his brain, as though in the columns of a dictionary, in order to be able to respond, on any given occasion, to the different stimuli of the world around him. This form of culture is really harmful, especially to the proletariat. It can only serve to create misfits, people who believe themselves superior to the rest of humanity because they have amasse in their memory a certain quantity of facts and dates, which they trot out at any opportunity, setting up a kind of barrier between themselves and others. This false conception of culture serves to create that feeble and colourless intellectualism so mercilessly flayed by Romain Rolland, which has given birth to a whole swarm of arrogant windbags, more harmful to the life of a society than tuberculosis or syphilis germs are to the health and beauty of the body. The smug little student who knows some Latin and history, the vain little lawyer who has taken advantage of his teachers’ laziness and apathy to wrangle himself a threadbare degree. These people think themselves superior to the most skilled of skilled workers, who performs a precise and essential task in his life and who is a hundred times better at his work than they are at theirs. But this is not culture, ti is pedantry; it is not intelligence, but intellectualism; and any attack on it is more than justified."

Antonio Gramsci, “Socialism and Culture” from the Pre-Prison Writings, 9 (via weil-weil)

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