We were supposed to use this film for our MA report, but we ended up using a different one. I thought I should watch it again before returning it to the rental store. It’s a very good movie.

     The students in the film were intelligent, but they have come to accept failure as a way of life. And therein lies the danger: when you close your mind to the possibilities, when you cloud your mind with excuses. When you choose the truth that would excuse your actions when there are other truths out there that could otherwise set you free.

     If you are as intelligent as you always claim, out loud, to be, you must know by now that words do go around. You've just claimed that someone is spreading rumors about you, but in doing so don't you realize that you yourself have just started a rumor about that someone? If you'd like to clear things up and see which could be considered rumor and which is not, I'm just around, we could compare notes. So don't talk as if you're standing on higher ground, as if you're behaving better, because YOU ARE NOT. Stop the "victim" mentality, because you yourself are victimizing others. If it makes you feel better, my friend had been a victim, too (but she never, ever, said... that she was my friend! – oh, just trying out a modification of a telenovela line.).  The difference is, she never used that to explain her troubles, because there are a lot of possible reasons for one's misery OTHER THAN that. There are more valid, deeper reasons why A LOT of people "misunderstand" (???) ONE particular person. There usually are. But then again, my friend IS happy, and not troubled or "misunderstood" at all.

     Yes, everyone is trying and you, too, should try to be happy. I honestly think you should, even if I do not like the things that you do (take note: not the person, not even the rumors, but the actions). So, go ahead. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. You seem to need it very much, and if you let me, I can lend you some of mine until you see not just YOUR truth, but ours and others’, too. Just please, try not to scorch other people -- those who are just passing by, those who teach the same lesson differently, those who were tricked into opening up thinking it would be used to help you change for the better… my friends, especially -- while you do.

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