one of the many reminders that i am still in high school - that i am a mere fledgling, that i spend more than 6 hours with teenagers trying to find their own skin (which also applies to myself)- is words in "trend".
one commonly used now among highschoolers is "FAIL." this can often be used in a sentence like: "you FAIL at life" or a favorite phrase that incorporates this word is "epic fail" which doubles the irritation in my ears. the previous phrase that occupied many of our conversations before the advent of this f-word was "that's what she said."at least this reminded me of something so obvious and inherent in every generation of the youth , that we are still kids, curious about things that were so taboo before.
but this fail word. worries me. maybe i'm analyzing too much. but does everything for us bifurcate into pass or fail? are we so concerned about the standard way of evaluation? the number or the letter that generalizes so much, that overlooks too much? maybe this is me ventilating as a student, a student fairly diligent, a student that strives for the numbers that label me, set me above or below average, the 2400, the A, the 5, the 4.0
i feel you. but wonderful that God is our judge...and we do not ever have to face his failure--for there is no such thing.
ReplyDeleteI like this post..I too hate that phrase.
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