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“When will you grow up? What the heck is ‘growing up’ in the first place?”
One of the main things we all stress about now or did in the past is about school. With times changing and technology becoming a larger influences in our lives, education itself also changed… to the point that it has become something oppressive.
Its no longer about passion that one has for a goal that decides the future, but letters and numbers written on a piece of paper. A letter decides your place in society. A number decides who you are. If so. . .
“Can you recite your dreams as a child?”
This song, The Lost One’s Weeping, was also another one of the many great pieces that got my attention. People can relate to it… and it addressed a topic that really isn’t usually spoken about. How school has become not an opportunity to achieve our dreams, but a system that has done the exact opposite: taken away dreams… our sense of self… our character.
“I may have forgotten something much more important than my textbook or homework in the classroom.”
People expect you to do extremely well in school, and now with that pressure, dreams are forgotten and you can only face piles and piles of work that never seems to be getting smaller. School is the only thing that matters. Not yourself.
“Can you solve this equation on the abacus?
Can you loosen the rope around that kid’s neck?”
The Lost One’s Weeping
Music & Lyrics: Neru
Movie: 456
Tuning: 友達募集P
Original ver.
English Translations: Amesubs
English Dubbed ver.
Lyrics and Voice: PopPrincesses
English Lyrics:
A dagger of distrust
Finally pierces a vein,
By suddenly appearing, this weak love,
Even transforms a pole into a lethal weapon.
It’s not fiction.
I do like math and science,
Since I’m useless at Japanese, I hate it,
But if I continue to worry about which is correct,
I feel that they’ll both turn out to be wrong.
Today’s
Homework is
About me
Who has no personality,
It’s just enough,
I’m satisfied,
I’ve started to live,
But why is it, we
Sometimes– no, always
Say we’re sad,
Say we’re lonely?
Can you read the Kanji on the blackboard?
Can you read that kid’s imagination?
Who was it, that dyed his heart black,
Hey, who was it?
Hey, who was it?
Can you solve this equation on the abacus?
Can you loosen the rope around that kid’s neck?
Is it fine, if we remain like this?
Hey, what should I do?
It doesn’t matter anymore…
No matter how much time passes, we’ve
Been carelessly intoxicated by hypnotism,
I’ve always hopelessly hid,
Behind
Arrogance from power I no longer have.
As always,
I can’t
Solve
Yesterday’s homework,
It’s just enough,
I’m satisfied,
I’ve started to live,
But why is it,
The devil deep inside us
Says we want to disappear,
Says we want to die?
Can you read the Kanji on the blackboard?
Can you read that kid’s imagination?
Who was it, that dyed his heart black?
Hey, who was it?
Hey, who was it?
Can you solve the equation on the abacus?
Can you loosen the rope around that kid’s neck?
Is it fine, if we remain like this?
Hey, what should I do?
Hey, what should I do?
Can you recite the area ratio formula?
Can you recite your dreams as a child?
Who threw those dreams down the drain,
Hey, who was it?
But I already know.
When will you grow up?
What the heck is ‘growing up’ in the first place?
Who should I be asking?
Hey, what should I do?
It doesn’t matter anymore…
-The Diamonds ♦
This post portrays the lives of students perfectly. Nowadays, all I really care about are grades. I sometimes don’t even care about how I get it – I just want it. Of course, I haven’t cheated, but I can say for sure I had thoughts about it. What are those grades, anyway? Do they represent our knowledge, how smart we are? WRONG. I had a slap in the face back to reality one day. I was faced with a simple real-life problem and I couldn’t solve it by myself. I had an adult feed the answer to me, which made me feel really.. stupid. Who cares if I know the information in a textbook if I can’t even apply it situations in real world? Grades mean nothing – they don’t show our intellectual capacity. All they basically show is how well we can memorize and absorb the information in a textbook. – KTD
I totally agree with you on that. Everywhere I go, the only thing my parents and the adults around can talk about is grades, grades, grades. Like how I need straights A’s, get into certain colleges, etc. It’s pressuring me and lately even more so. And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one. All I can see within the school system is that they seem to number us from the smartest to the less attentive. And yea its really true that all numbers and letters on our report cards/grades just records our ability to take in visual information, not on how to use them in real life. Even if I get A’s, I still get called the idiot (jokingly) among my friends because I don’t seem to have a lot of common sense and is just really clumsy and forgetful. This song and its lyrics really got to me and I wish I had more courage to actually show it to teachers, especially the lines “What the heck is ‘growing up’ in the first place?” or “Can you recite your dreams as a child?”.
I would really show those lyrics to teachers before we leave during our senior year. It’s a messed-up system for us right now, but maybe it would be possible to get them to see how cruel and oppressive-like it really is and save future students. I just hope it isn’t already too late, because even if I claim grades are nothing, it’s harder for me to actually go with those words. I just can’t help but continue to kill myself as I strive for A’s like some brain-washed zombie.
this system is cruel and messed up im 11 in 6th grade and im the smartest one in my classes but in real life im… stupid when it come to real life problems/situations i wouldn’t be able to tell you how to begin i have 0 common sense but when it comes to school im like a zombie and zap i get an A+ in everything, sometimes i feel like a dumb loser, i can soooo relate to this song its like once im out of school im a lost little girl who can do nothing for herself,i stress so badly about good grades because my parents expect me to make A’s or B’s anyhow im ranting this song is cool and i listen to it to get away from all the pain
I just want to say that the idea that these days the school is more focused on grades than yesterday is just wrong.
If anything schools nowadays are much more focused on understanding students as people instead of just computers where you throw the information and hope than the information stays
If only the could see, they could understand what the students really wants and yet they won’t understand but give us more pressure, to study,to learn, to know is everything we have to do now..no more dreams to think off, no more knowing what we really want..
“What are we leaving for?”
“A future?”
“Or is it that we just need to go with the flow..and only follow”
Now I wish that I dont need to grow up..being innocent like a child is much better than knowing everything that pains myself..the only thing left now is work and follow the crowd..to be someone they want me to be..and yet I wonder what was those innocent dreams I used to have when I was little..
“What is it…Teacher?”
“The answer doesnt matter anymore..”