Username: ShadyBro
Name: To The Beat /// Techno
Gender: Stallion
Halter Color: Eye Color In Plaid
One Thing You Learned In School: Perhaps not exactly an academic feature, but I learned something that has helped me to survive in this dog eat dog world time and time again - how to ask for help.
Why?: As you can imagine, Im a pretty proud and stubborn man. I always refused people's help and advice, turning it down in the attempt to seem strong. In the end I just looked rude and pretty stupid, but I didnt know this until much later in life. During my time in highschool, as I struggled and battled my way through just to keep my head above the water, I had to work with a lot of awful people. I went to an alternative school after all, what more did I expect? But thats where things went from bad to worse. You see these other kids, they didnt care about any of this, even less than I did. I just wanted to get through, but they didnt even have that motivation. On more than one occasion, I was stranded, lost to a see of idiots with an overwhelming amount of work threatening to drown me out. Over the course of my first year, as the stress increased and I spent more and more time stuck in the psych hospital, I slowly came to terms with something that I had always refused. Im just human. I couldnt do it all, especially not alone. I learned to ask people to help me, to share the workload and persevere. Of course by then it was too late, I had already failed and been swallowed up by the grade curve, forcing me to drop out and jump right into being an adult at the age of sixteen. But I still keep this lesson with me, allowing people to lend a helping hand, never turning down a kind gesture. I just wish I had learned sooner.