Email to the teacher

Hi, I'm Aixa Aranda and I'm in your class of English of 2nd of Bachillerat. We were told to send you and e-mail about our goals, related to that video that we watched in class about Obama, and well, here it is.

I do not have goals at all, my life is very dizzy and I haven't got much hope for the future. But I guess that if I had to choose a goal it would be to just stay alive and keep going, because even that is a challenge. Given that my goal is to live, I could face all kinds of challenges, because I guess that that's the main point of life; suffering. I could say that the main goal of life is to overcome challenges, but there are lots of challenges that are impossible to overcome and the only thing for us to do is to suffer.

"So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort in everything you do. I expect big things from each of you. So don’t let us down. Don’t let your family down, or your country down or most of all, don’t let yourself down. Make us all proud."

If I had to choose something about his speech to comment it, it would definitely be that one. It is beautiful, inspiring, and above everything, a big fat lie.

Obama doesn’t care about anyone. I’m pretty sure that no one cares much about anyone. This is a world where everyone follows the rule of the survival of the fittest.

If you fail, nobody cares, you just fall into oblivion. And if you actually manage to make something big in your life, people will pretend that they have always liked you, even though they never did and never will. 

Humans are strange beings.

So, all this happy-positivity stuff annoys me a bit, because it’s just… I don’t know. Even though the quote itself is kind of… cute, it’s a bit… hypocritical coming from the US President, a country where if you don’t belong to a certain social class, you may be treated a bit like… crap. (Sorry about that swear word).  And it’s going to be even worse when Trump becomes the president, because he will, because humans are dumb and will vote for him.

And well, our country is even worse.

I don’t know. The world is an awful place for all of that positivity and happiness.

Or maybe I’m just annoying.

Yeah. It’s probably that.