Tuitions Paid Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Commitment to discipline,
Is a lifestyle one adopts to adapt.
As is motivation and initiative.
Few can say,
Achieving success...
Can be done to ignore that.

But 'somewhere' in its definition,
To interpret as a choice one makes...
Success for many has come to mean,
Protesting against sacrifice.
And unifying with those of like minds,
Believing themselves entitled to receive...
What others get but without the sweat.
Or tears that come with disappointment.
That leaves them feeling discomfort.

Commitment to discipline,
Is a lifestyle one adopts to adapt.
As is motivation and initiative.
Few can say,
Achieving success...
Can be done to ignore that.

Yet many perceive,
Patience, tolerance and wanted comprehension...
Is 'something' that happens if one sits,
Taking notes to await for words said with emphasis.
And then to demand from instruction and books,
What a drifting mind can not find that satisfies...
The ones all their lives refusing to pay attention.
But do they will to make claims tuitions paid,
Are too high to achieve their desires.
And lessons taught by incompentent teachers,
Can be directly blamed for their failures.

However...
'Somewhere' in its definition,
To interpret as a choice one makes...
Success for many has come to mean,
Protesting against sacrifice.
And what it takes with it understood,
That failure to accept as if to expect it...
Is not without its price to pay.

'Let's see,
With a doing of it collectively.
How many of you have committed to do,
Less partying?
Or socializing to take your lives seriously? '

~That's why we protest.
You want us to accept 'your' way of life.
And not the way 'we' want ours lived.~

'So...
You want traditions to change,
To accomodate your wishes...
Not to have them followed? '

~Exactly.
All of that nonsense about following,
To learn how to lead is stupid stuff.
WE...
Are the future.~

'God?
Please ignore all of this.
And bless us.
Even the ones who resist 'Your' wishes.
Help them understand,
That a willingness to comprehend...
Does have its benefits.
Whether it is done with tuitions paid,
Or not.'

~God has 'nothing' to do with it.
And you call yourself,
A professor of 'philosophy'
Why? How? ~