Day 4: Raising our Hands

While the topic itself sounds simple, raising a hand to participate in class has a lot more depth that it appears like. Today in human geography, our teacher was mesmerized at the fact that most of us didn't say a thing, or raise our hand even once. But, in my point of view, raising your hand floats above the idea of a high risk and reward system. You see, when you raise your hand, three things can happen:

1. When you get called on, you will give out a smooth, perfect answer that will shock the teacher on how delicious that answer was. Following this, the teacher will exclaim "Very good!" and continue on with the lesson. Afterwards, you will be in your seat, feeling amazing about yourself, while showing off to your classmates how smart you are.

2.You will get called on, you are confused and ask what the question was again. After that, you still don't know the answer, so you either say you have no clue, or you murmur what is barely qualified as an answer. The teacher will then proceed to give you the "what is wrong with you kid" look and then won't take the class's pressure off of you until you get it right. This will make you look like quite a idiot, and you will cringe to the memory of that moment for days, months, or even years.

So yeah, this is how the experience of raising your hand can go (from my point of view). Of course, there can be all sorts of variations depending on the different situations, but you get my point. But you know, I think raising your hand is like real life, there are always ups and downs. Despite this, we always learn from our success and from our mistakes, so after all, maybe raising my hand a little more often might be worth it. We have so much to say, but the dread of what others might think of our answers just keeps us down, but we should stop thinking that. Indeed.

Oh, I almost forgot about the third thing that could happen, you can use your real life hax and ask if you can go to the bathroom instead of answering the question, and you will put your cool guy fedora + glasses and walk off to the bathroom, avoiding a bad situation like a true high school master...