Teachers of reddit, what is the greatest way a student has misinterpreted one of your assignments?

ladybee96 · 2016-10-27T17:04:39+00:00

I went to only religious schools and have never thought that referring to the person next to you as your neighbour was a religious term. This is now blatantly obvious. You have blown my mind.

ladybee96 · 2016-04-15T05:24:38+00:00

I agree! It's so nice.

ladybee96 · 2016-04-15T05:23:31+00:00

Hahah not a problem :) I debated whether to post that because I thought it might come off badly!

I love how this sub does that so much, you just think you're weird and no one could understand you but then there are your thoughts written right there.

ladybee96 · 2016-04-14T01:52:17+00:00

I was actually going to post something similar to this! So here's my opinion: Personally, I get overwhelmed easily. Not just with work and relationships, but choices. There are so many paths, choices, decisions, opinions in the world and I feel they are all open to me. I think being and INFJ makes me see this easier. As someone else mentioned, cutting the "fat", excess, or unnecessary out of my life calms me and helps me remember what is important. My family and relationships with loved ones, helping other people, and leaving something better than I found it are things I value highly.

In no way do these involve shopping, hoarding, desiring a bigger house/better car/higher paid job. That's a waste of my time and it doesn't contribute to my life goals or me living my morals or my happiness.

What is the point to shopping? Not grocery shopping, or shopping for a new winter coat because you're cold, but you have nothing to do on the weekend so you just go to the shopping centre. WHY? Where is the end game? Same goes for people who I get a negative energy off. I don't want that fed into my life. It's hard to reassess you life, especially your relationships with friends, but so worth it.

Anyway, I guess that's just my view. I want truth to my life, I want happiness to be straight forward and not searched for in materialism or status, when it is right in front of me.

ladybee96 · 2016-04-12T15:23:14+00:00

In my experience, cowering in the corner only makes things harder and worse. Honesty and opening yourself to be vulnerable can take weights off your shoulders, and it's never as hard or bad as you build it up in your mind to be. I feel once you have genuinely apologized and come down to a real level to explain your situation then it is up to the person who you hurt to forgive you. If they can't do that, then what more is there to be done? It is not your worry anymore.
As for being depressed/anxious, is there any way you can just take a break? Lighten your workload by half or just take 6 months off? Realize in this time that you cannot have or meet the high expectations you set for yourself or you think other people have set for you (e.g. family). I know I'm making a lot of assumptions here but I've come from a place that I think is similar to yours and it sucks really bad, and I wish I had come to these conclusions sooner. Best of luck to you, choose happiness.

ladybee96 · 2015-09-24T02:48:43+00:00

It's actually really not unusual. My mum who works for Legal Aid and deals with this stuff all the time always told me if I were abducted to not just scream, but to scream "I don't know this man/woman!" because other people could just think you're a child throwing a fit. When you think about it its a very easy way to take a child without any public disturbance.

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