Kickapoo

Kickapoo. They are an actual Indian tribe. How did they come up with their name? Were they just standing around one day, nonchalantly kicking turds around, when someone said "Hey we should call ourselves the Kickapoo tribe. I think that really captures our image."

I have a headache. I get headaches when I go to school. Why? Why am I stressed so by school? I really don't understand, I don't find the work difficult, I just don't want to do it. I think the reason I feel so burdened and honestly just annoyed by school is the fact that I think of how many things I don't want to do all the time. Each day in one class or another I'll think "Man I really don't want to be doing this" or "That project is due tomorrow. Crap." Right now I don't want to be writing blog posts, but I am, because I'm an over-achiever and a loser with nothing better to do. I think I'd rather like to sit around and think of something awesome before attempting to blog about it, but because we have the requirement of 1200 words and three blog posts per week, I'm rambling about insignificant meanderings which have only the loosest connection to the central topic.

I find politics a massive waste of time. I sense many people feel the same way. Why does it take so long for anything to get done? The answer lies miserably in that it takes so long for the extreme political animals to yell at each other and argue and call for a recess and then regroup and argue some more, give up ground, argue some more, have another recess, call a committee, find out the committee is useless, yell some more, tear up the proposed bill, argue and argue and argue and confuse and sensationalize and then filibuster and then have an affair with someone and then somebody dies, so that puts things on hold for a year. After all of that we now have a different grade of highway paint....sweet. The above scenario is completely hypothetical yet an accurate representation of how things work in politics. I would absolutely hate being a politician and I honestly don't hold them in a very high regard whatsoever. They aren't going to solve mankind's problems, no single person can nor can a massive body of elected officials. I digress. It's in my firm belief that education works much the same as politics. In class I will hear the teacher answer the same question 15 times. If asked enough times the teacher will give up and give everyone the correct answer for the aforementioned question that is apparently impossible to figure out, even though I figured it out the first time she explained it. How often do politicians answer the same question over and over and over? A bunch. How often are there answers misinterpreted or mined for quotes? All the time. How often do teachers answer the same question? I just gave you a scenario depicting such a situation. What happens if the teacher gives a slightly different answer from one person to the next? It becomes a yelling match of "Hey that's not what you said!!" or "She told me wrong" or blah blah blah blah blah! Figure it out! If anything is too change, whether it be an assignment, a project, or something larger like class schedules, it's the same drill. Someone doesn't figure it out, someone else yells at someone else for it, someone else has to go to the bathroom, and during the whole thing no one is listening and it just becomes a massive waste of time.

Yes, that is why I get headaches. I don't like talking, I don't like making useless noising. I prefer quiet. I prefer actually doing something worthwhile and not screwing around the whole time. No one cares about your girlfriend or boyfriend troubles, so don't talk about them. No one else cares that you're having a bad day, shut up. I hardly talk as it is, even if I'm having an awesome day, so if I'm having a bad day I'm not going to broadcast it. Look at me, I am somehow going to feel better by talking about how crappy this day is...what?! Shut up! Fix your problems, don't complain about them! I realize that in this blog I am basically complaining about things, but 90% of the time I give a new way to make things complained about better. I would like to have nothing to complain about, few things that I do have to be annoyed at. I have a roof over my head, money in the bank, food in the fridge, clean water to drink, when was the last time you didn't have those things?

People have come to expect everything to just be handed to them, both in school and in life. If I tell you something and you choose not to pay attention I'm not explaining it again, why would I? Teachers generally feel the same way but they give one-on-one attention to students, time and time again, teaching them things that they will almost certainly forget directly following the test they desperately crammed for day in and day out. People look to politicians and leaders to solve their problems when what they should be doing is looking in a mirror. It's my firm belief that 90% of people's problems originate from their own indifference and/or laziness. You don't have any money? Get a job. You don't have any education? Get one. You don't have any money for an education? Get a job. Don't have a girlfriend? Buy some deodorant and get rid of your thirty cats. You think society is messed up? Look at yourself.

Bam! I've said some harsh things in this post, but people are soft. Quit being so soft people. Grow a pair

Boom. Roasted.