[ WP ] In an alternate reality , a student 's GPA value floats on top of their head as a large number . All your professors , fellow students , friends , and parents can see it . How does this affect on campus relationships and day to day interactions ?

4.0. 
 
 I lived in jealousy. I worked vigorously, day and night. I sought the help of tutors, extra help, but to no avail. See, me and him spent a lot of time together in high school. We would hang out, talk about girls, and go to social events. But, he was always the good one, I was the one incidentally causing trouble. Like in sophomore year, when I got suspended a week for going under the table to pick up a girls phone, only she had a skirt on and was n't single. Or the time when I totaled Danny's car when he asked me to drive him, because he shitfaced and wanted to stay safe. 
 
 As our lives progressed, we grew farther apart. He was in numerous activities, clubs, and was a multi sport athlete. I was nothing compared to him. My grades suffered in what became loathing and hatred. I turned to drugs and partying to try and ease my depression, but it only got worse. I dropped out of Community College to find myself. All I found was how a bottle of pills makes the world easier to stomach. He, well he, graduated from Wisconsin University with high marks and entered accounting, in which he keeps track of money for numerous large corporations. Ironically, I feel like I myself ca n't account for anything anymore. I cycle between meaningless job after meaningless job, trying to make enough to scrape by while he is the shining beacon in everyone's lives. How it makes me sick, rotten, and eats away at me. I remember when I was a kid, and my second grade teacher, Mrs. Thomas bless her heart, made us do some assignment about what we wanted to be when we were older. I said responsible and rich. Life does that, brings your expectations up then sets up impossible roadblocks. 
 
 Like the ever present thought of my brothers success. People say I'm half the man he is. Well, I guess it fits, because the number I carry above my head? 
 
 
 2.0.
