4 years ago, at march second, I, smaller that even now, was standing in a line with a school uniform and exited due to the rumor I have heard. My parent told me that middle school is a place of anarchy. I guess my parent told me this story to advise me to think about my own safety. But I interpreted as every crazy thing I imagine can be true there. So, with a huge dream to do something crazy, I entered middle school.

At that time I was going through puberty so I was a typical, angry and rebellious frosh ready to say no for the sake of saying no. Whenever my mom said ‘종현아 이제 충분히 놀았으니까 그만 놀고, 공부해’ I replied ‘싫어’, if she goes one step further and says ‘엄마한테 말버릇이 그게 뭐니?’ then I would reply ‘알았어 그만해’ and then would play more.

A frosh going through puberty in middle school were like a man finally meeting his mate. Studying was not at the top of my to do list unlike my mother wish. Hanging out with my new friends was all I wanted to do. When we hung out, we did crazy stuff that I now really cannot understand the reason why we did that. We played baseball in a classroom with actual bats and actual balls and actual gloves. That time we broke a window and got about 10 penalty points. We played poker in school of coarse betting real money. I once got 100,000 won in one day. We played a game one time called “Hi” The rule was the one who loses rock scissor paper must sneak out and say hi to a teacher in a nearby classroom. We once found a dead fish in the pond and somehow decided to burn the fish. I will not explain further in this matter but just one thing. At one period, we were running away from a cop.

Those, however, are not the craziest thing that we had done. One day we were watching a music video for heartbeat by 2PM. In the music video, there is one scene which the dancers create a pyramid. After watching the video, we just decided to try that out. As I was one of the lightest students in that group I was positioned over there. Of course as we are not professional dancers, our pyramid fell down real quickly, and unfortunately one which by the way was my best friend fell down knee first above my chest. Just after the crash, I literally could not breathe, I thought I was going to die and I panicked. But at the same time, I thought the accident really hilarious and laughed with my friends. I found out my rib was cracked and I really get freaked out whenever something comes close to my chest. If you want to check this out throw a ball at my chest, there will be retribution. The first year at middle school was a blast for me with countless crazy incidents. I was really having fun and that made me overcome all the 학원 hell I faced. Also, even now whenever I feel down I just think about that time. The joy I felt at the middle school gives me energy to go one step forward.

                  During middle school, we were all careless idiots. At least I was and all my friends were too. I’m not that crazy now but still time to time I just throw caution to the wind and do something crazy. My friends, especially so called ‘Naemi’s, are doing nothing except studying. They seem to be deprived of joy. Some say they find joy in studying but I think that is bull shit. What would life mean without any fun? Just relax not always but time to time and lose yourself in your potential insanity. Your stress will be relieved and life in KMLA would be much bearable.