I hate crowds & one thing I hate even more than crowds is the felling of being ‘controlled’. This is why I usually look on institutions such as schools; hospitals; & the military with disdain - they are, I'm afraid to say, necessary evils. When I was in high school I was managed to escape parade, which encompassed both of these hates, by feigning illness. I got the family GP to excuse me from having to attend parade due to ‘dizzy spells’ – never mind that these were most likely the result of anxiety & subsequent hypoventilation. And so it was that I got to escape the school crowd.
During the last two years at high school my avoidance behaviours had extended to marked absenteeism & when I was at school practically being mute. There were days where I would even count the number of words that passes my lips. By year twelve I considered myself to have one friend & that was all I needed. All my old friends eventually stopped trying to talk to me but they still parked their pushbikes down the side of our yard & said hi every morning (we lived directly across from the school). I lived in an internal world of my own. Who could tell that within the space of a few short months I was to go from being this solemn, quietly spoken girl, to leaving school & becoming extremely extroverted & gregarious. I was free at last....God almightly, free at last!
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave those kids alone
Hey! teachers! leave those kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
"Wrong, do it again!""wrong, do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding.
How can you have any pudding
If you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"
-PINK FLOYD-
(another brick in the wall)
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