I swear that it has been Hate-Pica-Week. I have just been getting a ton of crap for the dumbest stuff. Like I'd say something and at least 1 person has told me to shut up. Like okay, brah. Not cool. And then everything was going but lets get to today.
This week was Spirit Week at my school. At my little school, this is one of the biggest events of the year. Each class goes all out for everyday and the decoration madness gets so out of control we can't walk on the field by the last day. Now this is all fun and games (quite literally) until the final day.
Let me set up the scene. The night before the final day a few students from each class will show up around 7pm to do last minute decorating. I must say our class 1. had the most people come 2. had the most decorations that were ALL OVER! So our class decorated for a good 3 hours with hundreds of dollars worth of stuff. It. was. madness. So after we left from this night we go home, sleep, ya-di-ya-da, THEN! It is the final day! All the classes decked out in each class colors (our's is red) running around doing last minute decoration. We teach and learn our class cheer and head off to class and hope for the best.
Well, we go into the last gym before the last hurrah and cheer our butts off. "Dread the red, reds not dead! 2014, 29 strong, we're the red sea, we got it going on!" We then play a game for final points. And then, we wait.
And wait.
And wait UNTIL! It comes the the final round of scoring. Our hearts race and our minds quiet. They announce. And all the scores we look at seem impossibly wrong. We figure we might be alright due to the fact that we were 400 points a head, then it comes to the last slide of the Power Point.
Our chests cave in. Our shoulders sink. For the 3rd year in a row, we get cheated into 2nd place.
The atmosphere of the campus was a gloomy one as the whole junior class cleans in silence and heart ache.
Now, I'm not writing this to be a downer or to say "Gahhhh so dumb they were wrong." My point is, it sucks to try so hard to get shut down. My hopes get up so high and my mind is full of good ideas but when a person shuts you down your all like "whhhhaaattt..." and for me at least, it makes me stop talking.
And then when you stop talking people are like, "Why you so gloomy?" Well, ya know, you just can't please everyone. I find myself wanting to please myself because that's when I feel best and I don't want to live a life of pleasing others any longer. I'm done. Its Pica's turn to be pleased.
Thanks for listening to my madness if you made it all the way through. 10 points for you.
