old blog about reflection

Reflection is a word used by the religion teachers in my school as a method of obtaining something to mark without actually having to will themselves to create an actual assignment. "Write your own personal reflection about the movie we just saw, class. Oh, and be sure to include how it relates to God and your own relationship with Him in it. Now, I'm going to go smoke a joint behind the gymnasium, and wonder for the 1000th time how my life could have possibly become so pathetic while you're working on that. It's due at the end of the period"Okay, maybe that's not quite how it goes.So we work half-heartedly on said assignment, spewing out the same repetitive bullshit that we use for every piece of work in this, the class that even the educator knows is a waste of time that we could be learning useful things. Or smoking up with the teacher.So we write. We right about how God has a special place in our hearts, just like the movie's main character (who woulda' thunk it??) and how everyone should accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Of course, there is always the over achiever; you know, the one whom everyone loathes because they won't put down their hand and shut their gigantic orpheus's during lecture and simply try too hard for no good reason. This person will write a ten page essay about how much he or she loves the taste of the teacher's ass. He or she will often have obtuse and strict parental units who expect nothing lower than a 90% average, causing the over-achiever to rebel quietly; this rebellion is often obtained by teenage pregnancy (followed by abortion in some cases)a secret drug habit, or something else of the rebellious nature.And then of course we have the under-achiever. The polar opposite of said in the above paragraph. This person will either not hand in the assignment at all, or will hand in a ten page essay about how much they adore Satan. (The ten page essay will belong to the over-achieving under-achiever). This person frequently spends class time boasting about all of the drugs he has supposedly done, and all of the girls he has supposedly slept with. This plea for attention can often be misinterpreted by the teacher as a desperate cry for help, rather than what it truly is: the desperate cry for attention from some asshole with no friends. Take note that the over-achiever will have often gotten into more trouble than the under-achiever, who is all talk and no game.We then examine the whiner. This subject, often female, will do nothing but complain about how allegedly awful her life is, and will frequently attempt to tell the educator about said problems and have some sort of "special relationship" with them. Usually, the person in authority will have no part in this "friendship with student" business, but you will come across the odd sap who will do anything to win the approval of students, and take the bait. The whiner will often burden the class by sharing intimate details of her life, and again, complaining about how horrible her situation is. This person will write about how she can relate to the main character's situation, and how she hopes that God can help her too. Please excuse me for a moment while I vomit.And then we have the rest of us. The people who fly by under the radar, the people who will say only what is necessary to get a decent grade, and attempt to be invisible at all costs.Is this really what we have all become? Placed into categories like animals; that is, after all what we are, elaborate animals. I grow tired of this.