Boredom seems to be like a disease, spreading around until everyone has it. And I, being me, have a bad case of it.
Anyways, enough about boring stuff.
Now a days, we seem to concentrate on learning all our subjects, studying, passing, getting into a good college, and all so we could get a well paid job to survive.
Why does this sound like life sentence to me?
Back in the days, knowledge was something we craved as humans, something we just neeeeeeded to have. Going to school was a MUST and only because we loved to learn. Not because we knew that the moment we stopped learning we would become homeless and die.
OK OK not die, but pretty close my friend, pretty close. You'd be rejected by society, looked upon as a failier. Mothers would point at you to there children and say the all wonderful "Famous Lines" "If you don't stay in school, study hard and get good grades, you'll be just like him/her"
OOOH how I dread those words! Learning should be a privilege. It should be a choice.
No I'm not saying, OK let our children choose if they want to learn 2 plus 2 (which equals 4 for all of you that didn't know). The basics of learning, the elementary Math, Reading, History and Science IS and will ALWAYS be a MUST.
Hey, lets even take it a step further, Middle school is also a must, I have to agree I sometimes come home and feel as if I've actually learned something.
But other then that, really who cares? Why on earth would a Historian want to study 4 years (in high school) plus 2 years (in college) of math? We are all weak at something, but that doesn't mean we are losers in life. Face it, most of the crack we learn in school we dont even need in the real world.
Take a math test and fail and you fail the semester. Try harder, study, and fail, and you fail math.
You get an F in life my friend. AN F!
We have learned to regard school as a chore, something we just HAVE to do, because frankly, who wants to be the dude in the corner carrying a cardboard sign saying "please feed" (which btw, you should help because they are less fortunate then us).
Or just because we get an F in a subject, or because we fail the F-cat, doesn't mean we are stupid, or that we don't understand.
Intelligence comes in all forms.
I say screw the tests! Screw the math and the reading and the never endless history (because really people, we don't seem to learn from our mistakes). Screw fancy jobs and big money.
Life cant possibly be about all that stuff.
In the end all you will amount to, all your life will add up to, will be a good career and maybe a few Benjamen's.
Explore life to the fullest, learn because you want to, achieve because its something you yearn to do. And don't think that just because you get a skinny letter on the mail saying "I'm sorry Mr. Bleh, you're not allowed in our college" it mean you are a failier. It means you are intelligent in other ways.
Just. Find yourself.
Because, even though we are forced to do things this way, it doesn't mean it is right. It just means no one has been intelligent enough to come up with something better. To change things.
With all the love in the world, NC.
"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will
be that you will eat, but you will not live"- George Bernard Shaw
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