Educational Depression

Think it's pretty obvious what this is about, it's just something I feel quite passionately about.

I admire the people who cannot get out of this state,

yet they get out of bed

Because what is worse, getting a bad grade

Or taking time to fix your permanent emotional damage

Oh, don’t you worry, it’s just a phase

and now it’s just to grow up and go to your grave

Stuck between suicide and getting a A*,

you’re only given help until you are too far gone

You are out of their control

and the test paper won’t see the times you put the pen to paper

But later you put the pain to your skin

Oh, don’t you worry, it’s just a phase

and now it’s time to get on with it and become an educational slave

When your life becomes about organising your paper folders

Not about organising your mental health

There must be something wrong

Though all you have is deadlines and submissions,

So grit your teeth, wipe your tears and play along

I admire the people who are able to become the worlld’s

best f*****g actor in order to impress an educational system

that will not be impressed by your courage and kindness

When all you want is to sleep and live in total darkness

It’s a generation of depressed, essay writing sleepwalkers

Searching for the pills but finding the pen instead

Don’t you mind that voice in your head

It’ll only pull you down and if your grades go with you,

then there is nothing we can do

Praise the sane and praise the well

Be ashamed of the exhausted and let them dwell

Because you will not be praised for waking up today

When last night you were planning your death

And imagining what they would say

I admire the people who put aside their issues

because what are you without your degree,

You’re a no good, washed up, antidepressants junkie like me

Reviews

[Writer at last! Sky ~]

I like your views and feel the same. Education mere must not be a burden in life. I think it must about getting knowledge from what you learn rather earning just grades from your studies. Thanks for sharing!