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DUTY AFTER SCHOOL EPISODE 10

I tried looking for something that said "Sad" but Tumblr was sending to get mental help. Not that I don't need it but I feel that everyone that has watched kdramas lately need therapy.

ANYWAY

Kdramas lately have really been trying to play with my mental health. It's slightly concerning but I must give a standing ovation to the actors and actresses, directors and producers of this Kdramas because it's been crazy.

The emotions portrayed in this episode have been wonderful. They exxplored trauma, how going into college/university can reduce a person into a position, and how fear can play with your mind.

I love how they also touched on the topic of adults being the ones that should protect us, but in the end, we end up protecting ourselves and each other. Hopefully, the new generation will have it easier and depend on us, the new adults.

The truth is that this kdrama is very realistic. Not the alien part, of course but definitely the war portion of the drama.

Fighting to have good grades, fighting to be the best, fighting to make everyone proud, fighting to leave our mark in the world and then being categorized as bad students and good students. It feels healing to see there is someone who realizes that being at war doesn't mean carrying a weapon but trying to achieve something while all eyes are on you.

The adults using the university to manipulate the teenagers felt raw and real. Because they do manipulate us somehow.

They know what our weaknesses are, and they use it against us. But I believe that we'll do better.

I believe that this generation will tell the next one that it's okay to fail.

I believe this generation will encourage the next one to be happy.

I believe this generation will heal traumas by helping the new generation grow up.

I feel we gave up on our dreams, but we shouldn't stop dreaming.

If we stop dreaming we'll become like them. Categorizing people by their grades, by their beauty, by what they want.

Let's keep dreaming healthily. Let's encourage one another to keep surviving, to keep living. Let's find the joy in life, the peace in the quietness, the gratefulness in the touch of the sun.

I know it's hard. I know sometimes it feels as if the war were pressing on us but we've made it this far. We can do it a little more.

For us. And for those that are coming next.

That's the reality of duty after school. Not the aliens of the war. But surviving even when the world is going against us.

Surviving the appearances.

Surviving.

Let's all survive together. Let's grow old together. Let's keep fighting.

For us.

For the ones coming.

For the ones that stopped fighting.

Let's never give up.