It is sad, as I have done it too, that we echo the words "wait until they hit high school, they are going to get a fast reality check,"

Not only do we speak of their childish immaturity that is natural, but we speak of:

Self-expression,
The stress level from academics,
Oppressors, 
Depression,
and the helplessness.


"You think middle school is difficult? Wait until you reach high school," most students could say in unison, as if they were reciting their daily tasks to their friends

This is not of teenage melodrama, or of apathy to scare off children

But more the true testament of society as it stands

Where suicides and school shootings are more common

Where turning to performance drugs is a release from academic stress

Where being yourself is a target for mental torture on your back

Where the reality is we are all upset, broken children who are being pushed into the real word

to become broken adults.