We had Pep Practice today and I thought it went well. I suppose it went well, though it could have gone better.

I still don’t understand why some of my classmates left without asking permission. It’s as if the whole practice was unimportant, like it was just some sort of joke to them.

I mean, other people don’t think this thing’s a joke.

We’ve been branded so many names since the start of high school. I don’t care much for it, but I’m pretty sure other people do. I pretty sure that once in a while, people are conscious of what the other batches think of us. And it’s not up to us to blame them, because in a way, you know you feel it too.

I don’t understand why some people would choose to be lazy or bored and become okay with the fact that the other batches think we’re losers. They probably didn’t mean for it to sound that way, but I’m pretty sure that’s what they meant. It’s almost as if the other batches accept that we couldn’t fight back and choose to ignore us all the same.

HEAR ME OUT. I don’t want to be IGNORED. I don’t want to appear as something to fill up the pages of the graduating batch’s yearbook. I don’t want to be just some other student from our school.

I want for us to become a team. I want for us to work together to achieve a common goal. Some of us don’t even ask for much, some of us just want to prove to other people that we’re just as much as a threat as the others.

I feel so sorry for the other leaders. They’re wasting their time and effort for people who look like they don’t give a rat’s ass about being a loser or a winner. They’re wasting their sweat for people who would much rather sit their asses and focus on what they like.

What about what we like? What about what the batch likes?

Doesn’t someone out there atleast show some gratitude for what the leaders are doing for them? Sometimes, simple instructions can’t be followed because “It’s too hot” or “I’m so sweaty” or “This cheer is lame”. Well, let’s see you try and shout all day, stand up all day and compose a cheer better than the one that our leaders made. Let’s see you try to control a batch that looks so uninterested. Let’s see you try to lead.

We chose those leaders because we know that we can follow them. We chose them because we respect them.

And If you believe everything I’m saying, STAND UP.

You must have some pride in there. I mean, you don’t want to tell your kids that high school is a bore when deep inside you didn’t want to them the real reason. The reason that in twenty years time, you will have hung yourself dry knowing that you were such a drone. That you didn’t fight the fight. That even if the odds were all against you (much less ignore you), you didn’t fight back. You know you didn’t do it and yet you choose to ignore it.

Sometimes I wonder how you people sleep at night.