Look at her shoes. Her hair is ugly. What a jerk. Your stupid. Wanna go out? It's over. Drama. Drama, in middle school. Grade 8 drama seems like a big deal doesn't it? Even I think it's a big deal sometimes.

Reality check, when we're 20 years old, nobody is going to care about our little grade 8 relationships and break ups, including ourselves. Some people go searching for drama which I don't really understand because if you start the drama, people will not want to be around you. If someone says something behind your back, talk it over and be friends again. Life really would be a whole lot easier if everyone got along but unfortunately that's not the way things will always turn out. If you don't like somebody, you don't need to talk about them or fight with them. Simply stay out of their way, and they will stay out of yours.

So, even if it is a fight with a friend, a break up or anything else, just remember that you don't want drama. Drama is not a good thing to have in your life. Drama, an exciting or emotional event? No thanks. Live life to the fullest and don't waste your time dealing with... what? Oh right, drama.

"Use the word, dislike, rather than hate. It's okay not to like something, but it's not okay to hate something. Hate started this, hate started the Holocaust."- Eva Olsson. Hate is a word used, shown, and thought about by many. It's an automatic thing we say when we don't like something. Adolf Hitler, a man who only thought about hate, started a holocaust that changed the world. Eva Olsson was a part of this holocaust. At age 19, Eva and her family were taken away, being told that they were going to work in stone factories.. boy were they fooled. When they arrived, they were put in a huge line, with many other people. You were either ordered right, or left. Her mother was ordered left, there were so many people, she didn't get a chance to say goodbye. She hasn't seen her mother since. A 19 year old girl, who's mom will never get to see her graduate, get married, and will never see her own grandchildren. 

Why do people do the things they do? That is the never ending question that haunts all of us. Nobody knows the answer, not even the people who do it. I mean, how many of you have said something bad about your friend behind their back? I have. Why did I do it? Power. Everybody wants power. Why do people want power? Maybe it starts with fear. I'm sure Hitler had fear, maybe power was a way to overcome it. When Eva came to talk to us, the room was silent. She had power over all of us. The difference between her and Hitler is she uses her power to educate us about what she went through. While listening to her speak, a million things were running through my mind. A million questions, a million thoughts. I'm trying to picture the horrible things she had to experience but yet I wanted to hear more. I didn't want to know what happened, I wanted to understand. So many people just know, they feel that it was long ago and it doesn't matter anymore, but it does. We will never fully understand the life they lived, unless we live it ourselves, which I pray never happens.

I think we need to take into account what Mrs.Olsson said so that we can prevent these terrible things from happening in the future. 11 million people died in this preventable tragedy, all because of this thing we call hate. Fear turns into hate, hate turns into power, and power turns into tragedy.