⚠️ START READING HERE IN THIS BOX!! Oh, and click the green flag for music too ;) ⚠️ ——— Dear Scratcher, As the title suggests, I’m taking a break from Scratch for 15 years. It’s hard to say it, but my existence on Scratch is absolutely blasphemous to my parents and the Lord. Why? Well, in this project, you’re going to read why, so please do read everything - I’ve taken a long time to write all of this, and I’d really appreciate it if you could dedicate even just 5 minutes to hear my story. Thanks for clicking on this project. Let’s begin: As you all know, I’m striving to be the most competent person that I could ever build myself up to be. I’m also very conscientious about everything I do, from my chores to schoolwork. But most importantly, I want to be a doctor - specifically, a neurosurgeon. (I sound like a nerd every time I confess this, but honestly I should really care less about what people think.) I feel like this is my calling and that God has given me everything I need to become this. I feel like if I don’t achieve this, then I’ll have failed life. There are no exceptions. And as I’ve stated in the last project like this, I need to use my strengths to help me become stronger. However, how will I achieve my ambition of becoming a doctor? Well, the first thing I’ll need to do is receive excellent grades. Which brings me to… school. You see, I’m in advanced classes, which is already a good step. But that’s not enough. I have to actually DO the work in these classes and get these A+’s. And quite frankly, I have in fact been getting them very frequently. The thing is, when I’m trying to listen to my teachers at school, I end up going on Scratch instead or thinking about Scratch instead of truly understanding what they’re trying to teach me. It’s not just at school, though. It’s every time of my life, whether I’m trying to sleep, pray, read - name any activity and Scratch always invades my thoughts. I’m either always thinking of a new project idea or a way to get followers. I hate the fact that this keeps happening and I really need to throw Scratch out of my head. Plus, Scratch breaks so many commandments and I can’t even go to confession. This brings us to, well, fame. At some point, guys, we’ve all wanted to be like @theCharpy or @-SourToons- or @StarryOrange. These people have countless followers and are always on trending. And just like @LLLuxray - he first hated fame hungry people, but then became a bit fame hungry himself! Same goes for me. But hey, there’s always a price to pay, ain’t there folks? For example (sorry Sour lol), Sour placed last in his regional spelling bee because the pronouncer said a word he wasn’t familiar with. And it turned out folks, that the word he got was very easy to spell, he just didn’t understand the pronunciation. I’m sure if he had studied a bit more with the time he’s been on Scratch, he would’ve been able to nail his, but no. And the same thing happened with me folks, except I didn’t place last in my regional bee, but I still got a word I wasn’t familiar with, “fecund”, and placed 7th. So this just goes to show that I could’ve spent the time I used Scratch doing something else, like studying. (Continued)
(Continued from above!! Read above first ;-;) I’ve always been thinking of new ways to get followers - even wasting my time just to do that. It’s a psychological thing in kids guys, and if I keep getting addicted, then when I grow up I might get heavily addicted to other things too, so I just wanna prevent that. Also folks, my parents are very paranoid about online security and kidnappers. Over 2,300 kids in America are kidnapped every day, and I don’t want to be a part of that number. The worst part is that I’m using Scratch behind my parents’ backs. They don’t know I’m on Scratch - I’ve been hiding it from them. Whenever I’m making contest entries, I’ve always been facing them the opposite way on the couch when I’m drawing them so they don’t know I’m drawing complete strangers. When I’m alone at home I’m typing lightspeed talking to strangers I don’t even know. It’s gotten to the point where I have been in a relationship with someone on Scratch. I take that back and how foolish of me to start that. I have already been caught talking to strangers on Roblox when I had my home iPad, but now I can’t use it because of what I did. That’s why I can only use Scratch on my school iPad and why I don’t use it on weekends. Really, it’s been a long story and I just don’t want to be caught again. And last but not least - the Scratch Team keeps denying my username change requests. I’ve asked them several times to change it and I keep getting the same answers back: no. So that’s just great, isn’t it? Good grief, Scratch Team! There’s a kid on here who actually genuinely has a security issue in her username (initials and school ID) yet you show no mercy. So, that’s another reason. So folks, I think that pretty much sums it up. I want to achieve greater things. I want to be called a doctor, not a cartoonist that always worries about her grades in school. I want to get better at chess, become a grandmaster when I get older, and beat my ACTUAL friends in real life. ‘Yknow, it’s real funny that at school I talk to my Scratch “friends” more than my actual friends there who are smarter and kinder. I want to be a better person in the real world. I want to pick up my Rubik’s cube at home and finally learn how to solve it. I want to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee and take home that trophy. I want to be holier and actually be able to pray at night than think about Scratch. I appreciate all of the support you all have given me throughout the years, folks. I hope you all have an excellent life outside of Scratch. I can’t believe I’m actually leaving after all these days. At the same time, I can’t wait to shoot some hoops on the court knowing I don’t have to make another project again. Thanks, everyone. I truly am really looking forward to the future. May the Lord be with you always. - An 11 year old aspiring neurosurgeon, Knight (: Also, if you would like to play chess with me, I’m KnightTheDoctor on Chess.com :) Edit (September 14th, 2023) - I don’t use Chess.com anymore. But things are going even better because of that. :) (Music is WALK THE MOON - One Foot)
