Risk

It’s a four letter word.

I’m redefining the word.

I teach kids. Yet I have an unhealthy attraction to things that are frowned upon and I have been known to walk about with a gram of meth in the back of my phone and smoke thc on my way home. And I keep forgetting people’s names. But I work hard. I am a good teacher. Statistics speak for themselves. People have said my skills might be better suited to teenagers. But the problem there is that teenagers will start to question deeper and there’s only so many times I can use the phrase ‘my cousin went through…’

Makes driving without a seatbelt on the least of my worries. Yet that’s what people see so that’s what people think I need to concern myself with.

The longer I get away with my life, the more confident and condescending i become…