Opinion

Going back to school is boring

September 02, 2018
Going back to school is boring

Samar Al-Mogren



Al-Jazirah newspaper

I FIND it strange that people are moaning about going back to school and ending the summer vacation after spending almost four months relaxing, playing, staying up late and going to outings. We have the longest summer vacation in comparison to many near and far countries. We should be excited about going back to school after spending such a long revitalizing ourselves.

Yet, many are complaining about the prospect of starting school again. I’m talking about the adults here, not the children or the teenagers. I am talking about the adults that work for the education sector. It’s almost like they want the entire year to just be a vacation. They have such negative feelings toward going back to work. A productive person would never look at work that way. We all need to work, not for the salary only but we all have the need to work so we can have accomplishments to feel satisfied about.

There are also those adults that say that they don’t mind the job so much but they loath going back to talking and interacting with certain people at work. They claim that those people make them miserable. I believe that these feelings are not real. I don’t deny that there are people who feed on others’ failures but a strong and confident person should be able to block that negative energy.

Work is a beautiful thing and the joy of giving and achieving is so valuable that it should not allow the negative people to bring you down and diminish your abilities. Ignore them. And not just by staying away from them but by not talking about them or mentioning them in your conversations at work or out of work.

All in all, complaining about going back to school or work in front of children will let them grow up to complain about their school and work in the future as well.


September 02, 2018
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