five things they don't teach you in highschool by Khaimin, literature
Literature
five things they don't teach you in highschool
1.
it's okay to fall in love.
i mean, they tell you you're never going
to marry your high school sweetheart and i'm not going
to tell you it's a lie
because it's not. you guys will probably
break up and it's gonna hurt like hell
but you'll be okay. remember, you are not the only one
who has felt loneliness like a knife,
the only one to know the pain of lungs collapsing
because they were your air,
and you will never be the only one who whispered
"i love you" two lives too soon.
you will not be the last one to have tucked
hair behind their ear and leaned in for a kiss
or the last one to wake up reaching for a hand that's no longer there.
b
“Habit and Record” You can get a habit. You can get a record. But, without a record, it’s difficult to prove habit, maybe impossible. For example, observe the high school degree you probably have. You graduated from high school. It’s your record. It’s not just a long past. A business may require workers to graduate from high school first. A high school degree is a requirement for so many businesses. For a business like that, you need a high school degree to work there. You cannot just walk into the business and say, “Well, I do not have a high school degree, but I read a lot of books!” This quote would never work out for the business and you. They need a worker with a high school degree, not a reading hobby. You do not likely have any record for your own private reading hobby. Your high school degree is the record, not your own private reading hobby. The business needs your records. Sure, you can “read a lot” of books for personal hobby. But, for the record, the business needs