You have to Deal

By Logan Clements-Darrah 

Sitting on my bed

I’m thinking 

Asking myself

Why drugs kill people

Especially my mom

Wondering why my life 

Is going wrong... 

Why are drugs

Addictive        

When someone does drugs 

Their  life is predictive 

A prescription may start a need

For more 

A reliance on pills

And questioning 

What feels good and bad

Once happy, then sad 

Like a swingset

I mean everyone makes mistake 

But these people went over the edge 

And took the risk they had to take

Doing drugs 

You have to stop

Taking those pills 

Put them in the toilet 

Then flush

Life is hard

But you have to deal 

 

Gender, something that is on the outside, but does not need to define us. For years, there was a boy and girl and what you were born, you were. You had to be a certain way. You had to like or love certain things, because if you are different it's not ok. 

You can’t show or express what is on the inside because your looks, your gender is what “defines” you. This is something that is absolutely nonsense and is one of the farthest things from the truth. Our bodies don’t define us, our emotions and thoughts do. 

How we feel, think, act, care, is what makes us who we are. Gender may be an important thing in life, but your emotions and how you feel overpower that. We might just have one chance at life, so we all need to live it in our most authentic form of who we truly are. Our bodies our temporary, but our thoughts, feelings, and spirit last forever. 
 

Something that really bothers me and sometimes keeps me up at night is any and all social prejudice or inequalities. There are so many things that I think are wrong with our world at the moment and honestly, a lot of them don’t have much of a solution. One thing in particular that really bothers me is people’s inability to leave other people alone.

I, myself, don’t care who you are, what you are, or what you do, as long as you aren’t harming anyone else. Be whoever you want to be, be with who you want to be with, do what you want to do, etc.

For some reason lots of people cannot let other people do those things even if it has no effect on them whatsoever. I think it’s a big problem and it really bothers me when people hate on other people for no other reason than they are offended by their race, gender, sexuality or anything they can think of.

By Lily Moore
Jericho Elementary School
Mrs. Randall’s Fourth Grade Class
90 Route 15
Jericho, Vermont

Dear World, 
Has anyone ever assumed you like or dislike something, like a color, just because of your gender? Well, even if this has never happened to you personally, you may have seen it happen in the world around you, or even in a book or movie. Someone who uses This discriminate action is called a sexist. It is rude, and not to mention down right wrong! Most people who are sexist are also very stereotypical. Some examples of stereotypes are all girls liking pink and all boys liking superheroes. But, there are still many people who do, in fact, like pink, and there is nothing wrong with that!