Big Head

It's slowly dawning on me as VCE unfolded to us all; this was all one big competition. Friends turn into competitors in the bid to come first. The awards, the recognitions, the money; all acting as one big facade of achievement and happiness. Not at all. It created a ranking order, a food chain. The unfortunate were spelled under the glory and triumph of a DUX. "Bow down to my strength, my intelligence. Bow down before me." The recognitions also created a black market within a select entry structure. Many passed through the system unnoticed. They fed on the disappointment, the falling of grace of those who were so close but yet were so far. They leeched them dry of hope and spirit, until they fell to a crumbling pile at the psychologists front door step, and someone else stood up to take their place. This repeating cycle rolled through us all, creating waves of power and knowledge.