You’re placed in school and you learn things that someone else claimed to be “essential” and “necessary.” They teach you the alphabet and how to read and write. They teach you numbers and how to add, subtract and divide them. They teach you history so you can recognize your past. They teach you science as a step towards the future. They teach you all of these things, but the lessons are half-assed and you don’t really “learn” – you memorize and recite what you’ve been given, you get it down on a sheet of paper and you receive a grade. What use is that? There is no “gold star” for anything you do in life. In life, there is no such thing as an “A for effort.” Because the minute you use your reading and writing why things are the way there are, you’re condemned. You’re criticized. When you’re going through life and you go over the calculations over and over again and nothing seems to add up, the numbers don’t even matter. Nothing matters. When you’re going through your memories and you’re making the same mistakes, it’s inevitable that history will (and it will) repeat itself. You remind yourself of your past (your flaws) every single day, and rest assured society reminds you too. Love and hate are the strongest forces known to man and there is no explanation for them. No formula - theories and ideas; but no laws. No truth. You can’t put that feeling in the pit of your stomach into a test tube and run numerous experiments. There’s trial and error, but no sequential and organized way to go about these things. We’re put to test every day of our lives, and I don’t mean academically. So someone please remind me why I’m spending so much time, energy, and money on an institution that leaves me exactly where I was at the start: with absolutely nothing figured out.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:01:54 +0000
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