Bad Teacher

Patience – The capacity to endure delay, trouble, or hardship calmly and without complaint. Everybody has had to be patient sometime in their life. Personally, I have never had to wait for anything, until one faithful day.

It was may 27th, 2026, I had to stay after school. After a year of procrastination, all the missing assignments had finally caught up to me. my teacher, Jeremy, had been extremely let down by my work ethic due to his thoughts of me being a “prodigy.” Jeremy claims that for me to be as smart as I am has to be an anomaly of sorts, as no one he’s taught before has been as intelligent. The only reason I stayed after school that day is because Jeremy had begged for me to stay and help him teach.

Walking into the room the energy immediately shifted, my classmate Danika had shouted, “oh my god, I feel your aura!” i proceeded to walk past her and nonchalantly pull out my chair. after sitting down Jeremy smiled and explained how thankful he is that I’ve arrived. As I look around, examining the pupils I have to advise, I see a notification on my phone. I reluctantly look down and reach for the phone, and click the link my best friend had sent me. Instead of the funny video Pj wanted to show me, I was presented a captcha.

Due to the robotic-like mindset in what can only be described as my “super-computer brain,” I could not solve this particular captcha. it had presented a picture and asked for an impossible task. it stated, “Select all that show a crosswalk.” I was embarrassed that it had come down to it, but I knew I’d have to ask for Jeremy’s help. I raise my hand, I sit and wait, but nobody came. Jeremy had been ignoring me to focus on lesser beings. I was dumbfounded by his betrayal after everything I had done for him. Then, just as rage took over my heart, I saw something. what I saw was not physically there, it was in another plain of existence. I saw my deceased uncle Ben. Uncle Ben had reminded me of his final words, and the message he taught me as he died in my arms. The quote he had told me is a quote I could never forget, “great patience brings great things.” just like that I snapped back to reality, and I decided to simply wait for the young teacher’s attention. I proceeded to raise my hand once more, and for over 25 minutes I waited. eventually, Jeremy had finally reached my table, he had looked at me and thanked me for my patience. Jeremy then said something that would shock me to my core. he told me that he was an angel sent by god to test my resolve. By giving me such an infuriating task, such as waiting for 25 minutes for assistance, god wanted to test my soul to ensure my grandpa’s message had gone to my heart. at first I didn’t believe Jeremy, I mean why would I? but suddenly all my doubts had been rebuked when I had awoken in my grandpa’s arm. it was 2014 again, a year before my grandpa died. I’m unsure with what I just experienced; was the life I lived previously a lie? I don’t believe it was, I believe it was a message, and a lesson.

“Old man on the edge” by carefulweb is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.