This I Believe

We are supposed to write about our personal beliefs as a graded assignment. Even more amusing, you people tell us explicitly that you understand that we don't talk about things like that normally, then why in the world do you expect us to reveal so much about ourselves to you? Who do you think you are to us?

This I Believe, is not respecting our personal space.

There are many things that I can tell you, and my personal beliefs is not on the list. Never ever will I tell teachers what I believe, because for things like that, which I don't even discuss with my family, or even my closest friends, are personal, and they are called personal for a reason. And so if I don't want to tell you what my real beliefs are, I can only fabricate one, or perhaps build up on another belief of mine that is perhaps more public. But then if I do that, you say that you people will be able to detect the "fake-ness" and therefore not give me the grade that I would have gotten if I was more "genuine" (by writing about those beliefs that I won't tell you)

This I Believe, is ridiculous.

Personal beliefs, I believe that on this, even you teachers will hesitate to share, so why then, do you expect us students to give you the key to our hearts and souls and let you unlock who we are? Well perhaps some people are fine with that, but what about those who are not? Perhaps you may say that those who are not fine with this assignment is only the minority, but haven't you always been advocating how we are all equal? How we will always, forever have our own rights to make our own choices? This is too far fetched, you may then say, but isn't this the same as the infamous mistreatment of the African Americans for example? Stripping them away from their rights to choose, to live, and to just be who they are?

I don't know about the others, but I think it's forcing me to reveal something that I strongly believe should be kept just for my knowing, which then results in me trying to find a replacement for these believes that I will never share with anyone, which then causes me to lose marks because you people claim to be able to detect insincerity (which by the way I agree that it can pretty obvious). 

So now I find myself staying up till I-don't-know-what-time-in-the-morning racking my brains to solve such a stupid problem, or rather, to find a replacement for the several beliefs that I hold so extremely closely to my heart that I will never, and I mean NEVER reveal to anyone as of now, and figuring out how to make it as genuine and sincere as possible... 

The funny thing is that this assignment in it itself is not genuine and sincere at all, because if it was, then it wouldn't have been a graded assignment in the first place... And just so you know, I haven't come up with any solutions, and for once, I don't really care. 

This I Believe, is believably unbelievable.