Lugiasian
05-03-2005, 05:50 PM
No, it's not Lugiasian in her 3rd moody depressed rant mode. :p
More like our school had an assembly today. Being stupid at the time, I thought it was the awards assembly. Turns out it wasn't. A guy named Mikey was gonna perform. I didn't recognize the name, but I recognized the person. This was the guy that performed in the high school when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Anyway, he's this guy who performs stuff, stuff like emotional and social problems. He's hilarious as well as really touching. (Mikey's a psychiatrist too)
So he's performing skits and telling stories through different personas, like this one little kid named Jermaine with ADD. Jermaine had a principal named Ms. Johnson who thought that he was beautiful and stuff, and there was other stuff that made us laugh. (For everyone here ;)) One kid called Jermaine a monkey, and so Jermaine got all mad and junk, and then he stood up and held out his fists, and yelled out "POOOOOOKEEEEEMOOOOON!!!!"
Everyone was cracking up. Anyway, he acted out other people, like this one goth kid with a trenchcoat(forgot his name, but the story behind him was related to the Columbine shooting and how goths are mistreated because of this), a Korean/Indian girl named Sabine who was discriminated because of her gender and race, as well as a few others which I won't bother describing because I'm lazy. :p
Anyway, the last character is what really touched me. It was this kid named Jose whose mom passed away and dad is an abusive alcoholic. Jose was teased, and went to the point that he was gonna kill himself. As he held the shotgun to his head he saw this book that a teacher loaned him, and he called the teacher, who immediately noticed something wrong. The next day he goes to see the teacher, who was crying. She hugged him and said he was beautiful, and told him never to commit suicide.
I'm sure there was more and in a different order, but I'm too tired to describe it all. =/
So, he also told us a true story about this one guy who commited suicide by jumping off of the Golden gate Bridge. And somewhere in his house, there was a note saying that if at least one person smiled at him on his way to the bridge, he wouldn't kill himself. Turns out nobody did.
Mike then challenged us all to smile and wave and say hi to at least 10 different people we don't normally say hi to. I did it ^_^ and he also told us to tell people that they're beautiful and to start thinking that we are beautiful ourselves.
However when I said to someone who wasn't at the assembly that they were beautiful, they looked at me real funny and said, "Are you gay?" or "Are you crazy?" I shrugged. :p
But what really got me was the reaction. I know I cried, and so did many other people I didn't expect to cry. One of my good friends was crying, as well as two aquaintences. Everyone hugged each other, and this was really the only day where we could hug someone, ANYONE, and it would be tolerated. (My school is quite hostile against kindness. Lol)
Today I learned a few very valuable lessons. One of them being, you really don't know a person until you've seen them when they're vulnerable and crying. O_O Yeah, I probably worded that qwrong, but....I usually say the wrong thing 99% of the time. ^^;
However, there was something that really pissed me off. There's this jerk in our class named Ricky. (Ironically, Rick was my ex-friend and the person who introduced me to Pokeschool. O_o). He's basically the Mr. Perfect-or-so-he-thinks of the class: brains and riches, but he doesn't get girls and everyone hates him. So anyway, as I see everyone and I'm hugging everyone, I figure if anyone would be touched by Mike's performance it would be Ricky. He was emotionally/mentally ill a few years ago. I try to hug him and instead I get a really rude response. I was plain old disgusted by him, so I pointed out that everyone really changed, even this one kid. He says, "Yeah, now he's gayer." (We call the kid 'gay' or 'fruit' as a joke and he knows we don't mean it so it's all good.) It really pissed me off because the kid was crying and was in no position to take an emotional blow.
I wanted to slap him, I really did. I didn't because I knew I'd get in trouble >_< But trust me, I'll slap him senseless when I get the chance. I thought Ricky was at least 98% *******. Now I know he's 100% pure *******.
So anyway, I had myself a good cry, and I realized that I wasn't alone.
Ummmm....any comments? =/
More like our school had an assembly today. Being stupid at the time, I thought it was the awards assembly. Turns out it wasn't. A guy named Mikey was gonna perform. I didn't recognize the name, but I recognized the person. This was the guy that performed in the high school when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Anyway, he's this guy who performs stuff, stuff like emotional and social problems. He's hilarious as well as really touching. (Mikey's a psychiatrist too)
So he's performing skits and telling stories through different personas, like this one little kid named Jermaine with ADD. Jermaine had a principal named Ms. Johnson who thought that he was beautiful and stuff, and there was other stuff that made us laugh. (For everyone here ;)) One kid called Jermaine a monkey, and so Jermaine got all mad and junk, and then he stood up and held out his fists, and yelled out "POOOOOOKEEEEEMOOOOON!!!!"
Everyone was cracking up. Anyway, he acted out other people, like this one goth kid with a trenchcoat(forgot his name, but the story behind him was related to the Columbine shooting and how goths are mistreated because of this), a Korean/Indian girl named Sabine who was discriminated because of her gender and race, as well as a few others which I won't bother describing because I'm lazy. :p
Anyway, the last character is what really touched me. It was this kid named Jose whose mom passed away and dad is an abusive alcoholic. Jose was teased, and went to the point that he was gonna kill himself. As he held the shotgun to his head he saw this book that a teacher loaned him, and he called the teacher, who immediately noticed something wrong. The next day he goes to see the teacher, who was crying. She hugged him and said he was beautiful, and told him never to commit suicide.
I'm sure there was more and in a different order, but I'm too tired to describe it all. =/
So, he also told us a true story about this one guy who commited suicide by jumping off of the Golden gate Bridge. And somewhere in his house, there was a note saying that if at least one person smiled at him on his way to the bridge, he wouldn't kill himself. Turns out nobody did.
Mike then challenged us all to smile and wave and say hi to at least 10 different people we don't normally say hi to. I did it ^_^ and he also told us to tell people that they're beautiful and to start thinking that we are beautiful ourselves.
However when I said to someone who wasn't at the assembly that they were beautiful, they looked at me real funny and said, "Are you gay?" or "Are you crazy?" I shrugged. :p
But what really got me was the reaction. I know I cried, and so did many other people I didn't expect to cry. One of my good friends was crying, as well as two aquaintences. Everyone hugged each other, and this was really the only day where we could hug someone, ANYONE, and it would be tolerated. (My school is quite hostile against kindness. Lol)
Today I learned a few very valuable lessons. One of them being, you really don't know a person until you've seen them when they're vulnerable and crying. O_O Yeah, I probably worded that qwrong, but....I usually say the wrong thing 99% of the time. ^^;
However, there was something that really pissed me off. There's this jerk in our class named Ricky. (Ironically, Rick was my ex-friend and the person who introduced me to Pokeschool. O_o). He's basically the Mr. Perfect-or-so-he-thinks of the class: brains and riches, but he doesn't get girls and everyone hates him. So anyway, as I see everyone and I'm hugging everyone, I figure if anyone would be touched by Mike's performance it would be Ricky. He was emotionally/mentally ill a few years ago. I try to hug him and instead I get a really rude response. I was plain old disgusted by him, so I pointed out that everyone really changed, even this one kid. He says, "Yeah, now he's gayer." (We call the kid 'gay' or 'fruit' as a joke and he knows we don't mean it so it's all good.) It really pissed me off because the kid was crying and was in no position to take an emotional blow.
I wanted to slap him, I really did. I didn't because I knew I'd get in trouble >_< But trust me, I'll slap him senseless when I get the chance. I thought Ricky was at least 98% *******. Now I know he's 100% pure *******.
So anyway, I had myself a good cry, and I realized that I wasn't alone.
Ummmm....any comments? =/