Have you ever wondered why the simplest things in life are sometimes the hardest? You would think that going to school, doing homework, eating lunch, and using the bathroom would be pretty easy. But apparently, even those things are too much to ask for. Sometimes I wonder if people actually think about what they're doing or if they're just making everyone's lives harder for no reason.
Let's start with homework. I understand that homework is supposed to help us learn, but there is a point where it just becomes too much. One of my teachers gives us SO much homework that it's almost like they expect us to do nothing else with our lives. Do they not realize that we have other classes, friends, family, hobbies, and things to do outside of school? Believe it or not, school isn't our entire life! We spend around seven hours at school already, and somehow we're expected to come home and spend even more hours doing schoolwork. At this point, when are we supposed to have time for ourselves? We need breaks too!
Now let's talk about the cleaning at my school. I'm not trying to be rude, but sometimes it honestly feels like the janitors do the bare minimum when it comes to cleaning. The cafeteria, classrooms, and even the bathrooms are sometimes left looking like nobody has cleaned them properly. And the worst part? These are places that hundreds of students use EVERY SINGLE DAY.
The bathrooms are probably the best example. Imagine walking into a bathroom thinking it's going to be clean because everything looks fine from the outside. The floors might look okay, the sinks seem clean, and everything looks normal. But the second you actually walk inside and look around, it's a completely different story. It's like walking into a whole different world, and not a good one. You immediately regret even going in there. How can a bathroom look so clean from the outside but be such a disaster on the inside? It's literally a bathroom. Isn't keeping it clean kind of the whole point?
The cafeteria isn't much better either. This is where students eat their lunch every day, so you would think the tables and floors would be cleaned properly. But sometimes, looking at the cafeteria makes you question whether anyone has actually cleaned it. The classrooms also deserve some attention. We spend hours sitting in them every day, so the least we can expect is a reasonably clean space to learn in.
What makes all of this even more frustrating is that these problems aren't even that hard to fix. Teachers could give students a reasonable amount of homework instead of assigning enough work to keep us busy until midnight. The school could also make sure that the bathrooms, classrooms, and cafeteria are actually being cleaned properly. These aren't crazy requests. They're literally basic things that should already be happening.
At the end of the day, students aren't asking for the world. We're just asking for a little consideration. We want to have time to enjoy our afternoons, eat lunch somewhere clean, and use a bathroom without immediately wishing we had gone somewhere else.
So seriously, why are simple things so hard? Sometimes it feels like the easiest problems are the ones nobody wants to fix. And honestly, if we can't even get the basic things right, then what are we supposed to expect from the bigger things?