If I Were In Your Shoes...

Well, it’s that time again. The time I’m sure every teenager loves.  Back to school.  Hard times for teachers, students, and freshmen.

 Anyways, back to school for me is kinda fun because you get to see new teachers, get into your new classes, and best of all hardly any work (at least in my case).  These are the final weeks, when the school shopping begins: to get  new clothes, shoes, supplies.   These are also the final weeks where procrastinaters finish up their summer homeworks (if any- well at least people like me- who have  future teachers that enjoy prepping their students even before they officially have them in class).

Truth be told, it doesn’t matter what school you go to but the scene is the same: the girl groups, the gangs, the preppies, the jocks, the cheerleaders, the “nerds”, bullies, the “wanna-be’s”, the cool teacher, and the “flirty” teacher, and even the drop-outs will be there.  But wouldn’t it be really funny, if school life was really like the way it’s protrayed in the movies “Grease” and “Grease 2″ where everybody goes in doing a song and dance?

Many times people seem to have it all and they seem to be happy, but others don’t know how they really
feel. Sometimes the entertainers, or people with fame have this emptiness inside and are not happy with themselves. While they are making people laugh or feel good, behind the scenes they try to fill their own sadness with drugs, alcohol, etc. I take this as a cry out for help because they need to feel that real happiness and not just people who laugh when a joke is told.

If you watched the video above, you saw stand up comedian Mitch Hedberg. He threw out jokes on random topics and was original. Unfortunately, on March 29,2005, he died of a drug overdose at 37, a very young age. We are not supposed to die before our time. He could have done much more with his life, even though he was a funny comedian.

As teens, we may wish to be famous or have it all. But what good is it if we have hidden hurts and try to cover it up? Drugs and alcohol are never the answer. They don’t make you “grown up”. They don’t make you “cool”. Instead, you may end up 6 feet under, while others cry and wonder what happened, why such tragedy.