Failing Elementary School

Here's how I learned that being the best isn't all it's cracked up to be.

### The Team's Twitters

[kennethfernandez]

Elementary school: *Tells an 8 year old they're gifted*
Same kid in high school: *Fails every class*
School: Ok but what does this have to do with me

[kennethfernandez]

Timtom: Just because you're young doesn't mean your feelings don't matter
Teachers: Hehe, nooo

[vslazer]

I know this will get lost in the comments and I think I will prefer it that way but I gotta say what this video means to me and how much it helps. I am not a popular kid at my school and I don't have any really good friends but for the longest time none of that mattered to me because I thought I was the smartest kid in my class and that alone was keeping my self esteem high. Well, that didn't last long because in my first year of high school someone came along smarter than me, and then another, and then another and I realized that I was no longer the smartest or the best at anything. As soon as I realized this I started having a mindset that I don't matter if I'm not the best at anything and started thinking I was a loser and unimportant and stupid and not worth anything. I've had this mindset for two years now and I've just come to accept it, but this video changed that. I never started failing in school or anything but I haven't really cared and have slipped down to low grades every once in a while. The thing is this video showed me that I don't have to be the best at anything to have self-worth, I just have to be a good person because I'll tell you that the smarter people than me are all jerks consumed by their ego and popularity. In the end It's the good people that succeed in life no matter how much the world tells us otherwise, it's the good people who really win at what matters most and if everyone would stop focusing on their own stellar abilities and just try to be a good person, then the world would be a better place. Thank you TimTom for making a video like this, it really helped me overcome my existential crisis I've been having for a few years.

[ProSkDuck]

“I wanna be, the very best! Like no one ever was.”

[ajtowey]

“As a kid I wanted to be a genius”

Didn’t we all

[CreatureCal]

TimTom: This will be embarrassing so please be nice to me.
Me: *Good soldiers follow orders*

[rusttytoasttz]

School: *makes students wake up at 5 am*

Also schools: everyone’s failing. That’s so weird

[vpm]

‘‘Just because you’re young, doesn’t mean your feelings aren’t real.’’

-TimTom.

[blu]

TimTom: Yeah I was good at Maths

James: YOU DARE CHALLENGE ME

[makaylamcgrath]

TimTom: just cuz your young doesn't mean your feelings don't matter
Schools: lol no

[ultrapika]

Elementary Schools: Telling children they’re smart, and making them feel stupid when they reach middle and high school.

[jennifer]

12 year old's when they see the intro: "I just cant right now."

[nogo_zone]

“I don’t have to be the best at anything for somebody to like me,
I just have to be kind.”

-Timtom 2020

[mr.jaxberg]

TimTom: I guess the truth is I won't ever be the best at anything. Me: You're the best at being timtom

[lauragraham]

TimTom: This’ll be embarrassing so please be nice to me.
Me: Here, have a hug... and a cookie

[theshadow]

“Just because you’re young doesn’t mean your feelings aren’t real”
That hit me HARD

[alijebraan]

TimTom: This will be embarrassing so please be nice to me.
Me: Understandable have a great day

[TomasTitan]

TIMTOM: “Told ya I was good at math”

JAMES: “YOU WANNA TAKE ME ON KID???”

[vextious]

Bruh Tim’s dreams were his inner feelings and their own art form, meanwhile I’m over here and don’t even have dreams depressed in a corner.

[steviecreel]

I love when he says [ just because your young, doesn't mean that your feelings aren't real] what a sweet marshmallow