"YES MAN"... More Like "NO MAN"

Last week my school had what we call "Fall Break," a time which to most means free time and happiness, but unfortunately, to me it meant very different things. To begin with, Fall Break is a very false vacation, because it's intended to be a time when students can relax and celebrate the end of the first quarter, yet (especially if you're an 11th and 12th grader) teachers bombard students with homework, which ironically 99% of all students don't do because let's face it, when you're on break you're not going to do homework. Also I recently I fell off a truck, and I can't do much physical activity, like sports, swimming and for the first week after the accident I couldn't write. Now you might wonder why I said that and how it's related to fall break; well it's related to fall break because to make matters worse my mom decided that for break we should go to the beach. Of course my parents chose to go to the one and only place where the best activity is to swim and play in the sand, when I can't do either of those activities. So to be honest the week before last all I could do when I got home was to complain about how much Fall Break was going to suck. In the end it did, plus not only did it suck, but my parents and my brother started telling me that I was too negative, boring and unhappy. Eventually they made it clear that to them I am "No Man" but really, in my opinion, "No Man" is just another wording for "Yes Man." Why? Well, because people always say, "You should say yes, and just go with it, and try new things and be happy." When people tell me that I think, "Please, SHUT UP!" because most people, because of either peer pressure or just because they're in a good mood, end up trying new things. All those new actions have just led people to get accustomed to doing something new, so now the boring and repetitive activity is doing something new. That's why I believe that if I would have stayed at home I would have done something new and fun; I would have done what I wanted, when I wanted and how I wanted.

To end this post I just want to state that to anybody who believes I'm contradicting my earlier guideline of saying, "Why Not?" I am not. I am saying, "Why Not?" but not to new things (which are actually boring) but I'm saying, "Why Not?" to the world of the unknown, to the new world, to the world of doing what I want to.