Things That Grind My Gears...

Around School

• How half the time your GPA means nothing compared to your SATs score.
• Cliques. Too often there are people left out, alone, without any people do be friends with.
• Being forced to complete 1 full credit of gym when you are an active athlete. There are other classes I want to take before I graduate and taking four gym classes are wasting my time.
• Lack of in school computer access. We live in an increasingly technological world that is constantly adapting. Our classes should take more time taking trips to computer labs to work behind computers and take advantage of the Internet.

Around Town

• Littering. Around Norwalk there is a plurality of loose garbage on street corners and off roadways. Though our city will surely not be able to fully eradicate litterers, we can surely mass-produce garbage cans that can be placed around town at heavily populated areas where littering would most likely occur.
• The failure to maintain public parks, fields, and roadways. Across the city there are abundant open fields either small or large that are being overgrown by brush and weeds. At the least we could cut grass bi-weekly in these locations to make a prettier, healthier Norwalk. Roadways should be paved more oftenly as to reduce the amount of bumps, bruises, and potholes the streets have to offer.

Around the Country

• Pretty Little Liars--the show that your girlfriend comes over to watch, where she shuns you throughout the whole show and commercials, then leaves without even having a decent conversation.
• Ads and propaganda.
• The constant one-upping between the United States and Russia for the past century.
• Constant American intervention in International affairs that no other country seems to get involved it.
• Militarism of all kinds. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein

Around Morality

• The phrase: " Good guys finish last." It's true.
• People who betray you, stab you in the back and make you wish you've never met them
• People who think they're too good for you and believe in social status. Ergo letting their worry over social status determine who they become friends with.
• Judgement without incite.
• People who never let a man and a woman be happy together and try to mimic Mr Stealyogirl.
• People who are ignorant and never look at how their choices affect others rather than themselves. They are selfish and pathetic almost 100% of the time.
• People who pressure you into doing things you don't really like. Or better yet, people who try to push you too far into doing something you actually do like and, therefore, spoils it for the both of you.
• Liars.
• People who make fun of you for their own amusement. I have feelings too and these feelings are about to do you some damage.
• Haters on one's great ability or achievement. When one person becomes successful those around him should root and cheer in admiration rather than heckle and torment in jealousy.
• People who play with your emotions when you have strong feelings for them--making you want to just roll over and die half the time.
• Cheering up. It always makes everything seem so much better until you wake up in the middle of the night crying because it finally hit you how traumatic your life is.
• Myself for not being able to control my feelings over certain issues or people which ends up in almost inevitable disappointment.
• People who live on their phones even when they're with someone who means a lot to them. And in doing so they shut out that person and make them feel as if they don't exist.
• Constant depression because you know time is flying by and you're wasting too much of it.
• Relationships. Their endings always hit me like a train.
• Stereotypes. Especially that men can't be at all sensitive.