With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept
"What's wrong with you? He's just a kid. We're all just kids and we just have this life and the things you say or do, we feel that. How can you have so much hate in your heart? How can you act like it doesn't matter? It does matter. What happened to us? We're just kids. We can't be like this. It's not possible."
How dramatic, eh? This was a line from an episode of One Tree Hill wherein it involved a guy, named Jimmy Edwards, who brought a gun to school. He brought a gun as protection, since he was intimidated by the people and that he wanted was to be noticed. This storyline is sort of recycled already so at first I thought, "Not another teen angst episode." But I actually liked this story not because of the actors and the actresses but because of how the characters faced this phenomenon, and it's all thanks to the script writer. It all started when the time capsule, which was about to be opened 50 years later, was opened recently. It held private matters like how Jimmy detested his school saying that nobody was worth remembering, he also told the truth about some guy who was a Casanova and so on. He got bullied and we all know how Americans are, so in the end he just couldn't take it pulled the trigger, accidentally injuring Peyton on the leg. Also he held hostage several people from the Tutorial Center where this line comes up and how the people he held hostage keep on pursuading him that he can back away from this matter. One even said that high school is only about 700 days out of 30,000 days of your life but his pain still remained. In the end, he ended up killing himself. Usually in stories like this, the "angsty teen" will see the error in his ways and decide to turn over a new leaf but in this one, he dies. I got shocked and asked myself, that if something like this was aired in the Philippines, I think it would have been censored. But I was glad I watched this, it woke me up to the reality that this really happens, not all the time though, but it still does. I have to hand it to the script writer for thinking of a plot like this.
How dramatic, eh? This was a line from an episode of One Tree Hill wherein it involved a guy, named Jimmy Edwards, who brought a gun to school. He brought a gun as protection, since he was intimidated by the people and that he wanted was to be noticed. This storyline is sort of recycled already so at first I thought, "Not another teen angst episode." But I actually liked this story not because of the actors and the actresses but because of how the characters faced this phenomenon, and it's all thanks to the script writer. It all started when the time capsule, which was about to be opened 50 years later, was opened recently. It held private matters like how Jimmy detested his school saying that nobody was worth remembering, he also told the truth about some guy who was a Casanova and so on. He got bullied and we all know how Americans are, so in the end he just couldn't take it pulled the trigger, accidentally injuring Peyton on the leg. Also he held hostage several people from the Tutorial Center where this line comes up and how the people he held hostage keep on pursuading him that he can back away from this matter. One even said that high school is only about 700 days out of 30,000 days of your life but his pain still remained. In the end, he ended up killing himself. Usually in stories like this, the "angsty teen" will see the error in his ways and decide to turn over a new leaf but in this one, he dies. I got shocked and asked myself, that if something like this was aired in the Philippines, I think it would have been censored. But I was glad I watched this, it woke me up to the reality that this really happens, not all the time though, but it still does. I have to hand it to the script writer for thinking of a plot like this.
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