Decisions.

You are in high school now. You are almost legally an adult. You have a couple of years left living at home. You still have to ask to use the restroom. You might be scared. You should be. 

All we have been taught throughout high school is to obey. Whether it is the teachers who tell you what to study, how to do math problems or how to behave, to your peers who ultimately decide what decisions you make socially. When are we supposed to learn how to think for ourselves? Our parents are doing their job when they tell us what to do, but sometimes when we attempt to make a decisions and they are the wrong ones, we face the consequences. We get shunned at school for doing something everyone else does not approve of. We get yelled at for speaking our mind in class by the teacher. Rather than being open-minded and optimistic, we become robots controlled by those who surround us, giving them the authority to determine our decisions. Whenever we make a choice of our own, we cower and just wait for it to explode. However, out of all of this, we are supposed to become free thinkers of our own. You think you are going to decide what college you want to go to? Think again. Oh wait, we cannot do that by ourselves yet, let me raise my hand first.

JSL