Grace

Smells Like Adult Spirit (But Not Really)
2014-05-28 02:13:19 (UTC)

What I am Doing With My Life


It all starts when you are a toddler. You are running around, just living. And as of now, those are the only years when my life was truly being live
You get to pre-school, and they slowly ween you into the system. They ween you into learning the so called basics of human knowledge. How to communicate with others, how to interact with others nicely, and somehow mathematics evolve into being common human knowledge. This is because you definitely need to know math for when you go to Elementary School.
You get to elementary school, and things start getting scarier. There are more subjects beign thrown at you, history, social studies, English grammar, and science. Then, on top of that they give you tests and quizzes and a letter as your portrayal as a student. A’s are the thing that you strive for. A is outstanding, B is above average, C is average, D is below average F is failing. Teachers hand out A’s to studen’t who can memorize a few words, memorize a few state capitals, and spell the word cat. However, the true understanding of things isn’t there. You start from an early age studying for tests, and quizzes, hoping that you will get the almighty A so that you may pass on into the next grade level, the next school, the next chapter of your life. Why is this living?
Why is it that learning cannot be a comprehensive, understanding, interactive force of knowledge? Why do you have to be tested and narrowed down to a letter grade so the school can say “Come spendmoney at our school because we have so many bright young people.” Is it not the point of learning to gain a better understanding of the topic at hand? And is it not the point of school itself to prepare you for the next step of life?
It is an endless cycle, the system is. You enter pre-school to enter elementary school, you enter elementary school to enter middle school, you enter middle school to enter highschool, you enter highschool to enter college, you enter college to get a job, you get a job to get money, you get money so you can retire, and you retire so you can finally start living. All this time you coast and coast by, at least, that is what the system trains you for.
What the system doesn’t include is the fact that there is a HUMAN life in the midst of the paperwork and testing, and persuit of wealth and power. There is a human, living, breathing, trying to flounder about in the grand oceanic thing called life. Now, why does this system exist? To give purpose? To prouce? To manufactur? What is the purpose of a system that makesso many depressed and wanting not to carry on?What is the purpose if the only times when you are living is when you are OUT of that system?




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