NM.
What happens when a friendship changes and its not always for the better.Don't get me wrong change is good,change is natural and we all change at some point in our lives but what happens when you change and you'r friends don't or vice versa.Sometimes we find that a friend with whom we had a long,important relationship with is no longer someone that we particularly like or enjoy being around.What used to work in the friendship no longer works. It is easy to talk theoretically about friendship but what are we to do when an old friend with whom, we have a lot of history with simply becomes an 'Acquaintance ' or even worse a complete stranger. So how does it happen? Now don't misunderstand me..every friendship has its ups and downs.No friendship is ever perfect .There is no doubt that a long-term friendship requires hard work and most of the time they are worth the effort.However Iam not talking about the bumps in the road of friendship but what about when the effort is no longer worth it.In my opinion relationships are a two way street and friendship isn't an exception.If one person stops trying it all falls apart. Maybe friendships have a lifespan? Perhaps when a friendship is over we can simply accept it and move on .Just because a friendships times has passed does not mean that it was not and is not important-still. However to demand a friendship to continue past its rightful time can be an attempt to turn it into something that it isn't.Sometimes the only way to get to have a "forever" friendship is to let it go in the form of what it was and simply to accept it in the form of what it is.
NM.
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Today is D-Day for the CAO. What do 6th year students concentrate on now ... points, how many do I need, what if I don't get them. But really, what is the point. After August, they are useless. So what is the leaving certificate all about. Does it get us ready for jobs, third level college, plc courses or whatever route we decide to take? My opinion, no it does not.
At the age of 15, some of us 16 we have to decide on subjects that may determine our career choice, isn't that a joke. Ask many adults what they want to be when they grow up - answer I don't know yet, so how can our education system expect us to make major decisions at the age of 15? We are advised to make choices based on subjects we like and our junior cert results, but if we look at how we learnt for that junior cert - we learnt like we did the one times tables in junior infants - the majority of us can get very good results regardless of whether we like the subject or not. So we pick subjects, yes based on like, but also advice from parents and older brothers/sisters, friends and teachers. But don't fool yourself, the teacher who will deliver the subject will also have a big impact on subject choice. If the relationship with the teacher was not 'great' at junior cert level that alone will determine a students attitude towards subject choice. Those of us, aiming for third level education are looking for easy points, for example if I am good at accounting, download the past exam papers and just keep doing them for two years and an A (100 points) is very doable. Is it the same for all subjects? Perhaps subjects which are subjective, English for example, are not so easy to 'figure out' but for the majority of the compulsory 7 subjects each student must sit it is being good at 'figuring out' that counts and our education system rewards that. On one particular day in August of each year, leaving cert students panic about points, that is the day third level institutions tell us if we are in, or not as the case may be. After that who cares? No one. Day one in college, no lecturer will ask what you get (or so I've heard), they don't care. What is worrying for students is that they are now 'on their own', no teacher/lecturer will 'spoon feed' them the information, like they do for the leaving cert, no one worries if you are in class or not, if you complete the homework. Why should they, it is your choice to be there, if its not you it would be someone else. Likewise some students in the third level class room may have maximum points, others may have the minimum requirement for that particular course, is a distinction made - NO! So is this points system a fair way of evaluating students and does it reward learning that gets them ready for further education? I don't think so, but neither can I put forward suggestions how to change the system, but the system needs change and given the opposition to the changes proposed at Junior cert level, I think the points system is here for a number of years to come. ED So lately I've been hearing people talk about how bad it is that technology is ruining our social communication, but if you think about it, its not the technology that's ruining our social communication its you. You are the one who decides to use the internet no one makes you use it apart from yourself. If people don't like that fact that they use the internet to much then take a break and join a hobby or hang out with your friends and spend time with family, the internet will still be there when you come back. It won't harm you if you give up the internet for an hour or two but then again its your choice but id rather be apart of the real world not the virtual one.
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