My sister, Laney, is now done with college. How about that? Were she so inclined (she's not), she could now enter the workforce, settle down, get married, pop out children, and spend the next 18 years driving them around. So that's cool, I guess-- having officially reached a stage of education where your socially-acceptable "real life" can begin.
Incidentally, that phrase kills me. "Yeah, I can't wait to graduate high school and go into the real world." "I graduated, so I guess now I'm going to have to deal with the real world."
I'm sorry, where were you before? In a world of make-believe and unicorns? I mean, kind of, (you're never really taught to do anything in school-- you're taught to pretend to do it. You don't actually ever apply your Physics knowledge to constructing a building, or your math knowledge to mastering the stock market, but, you know, you could. Theoretically.) but you are still ALIVE in the very same world that you will be living in once you graduate from higher education XYZ. You do not suddenly enter the "real world" once you're handed a degree. Either you've been living in it all along, or you never will.
Anyway though, my sister graduated.
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Hey, this is true. In many ways high school is the toughest part of anyone's life. Drudgery, anxiety and the difficulty of figuring out who you are and how life is. Real.
ReplyDeleteSo I found your blog on your facebook page after creepin on you. I've been reading bit by bit. Anyways, I finally decided to comment on one of your posts out of the many that I have wanted to. The reason being is that this post of yours really super truly effectively connects with some thoughts that have been banging around in my think tank for a while now. The process started with my winter blues and all this high school crap I (and everybody else) have to deal with. "What's the point of high school?" Which then leads me to wonder about all sorts of education, and its precursors, and precursors to precursors. "What's the point of elementary school? Heck, what's the point of preschool? Oh right, to prepare for elementary school. So what's the point of elementary school? Oh right, to prepare for middle school/junior high. So what's the point of middle school/junior high? Oh right, to prepare for high school? So what's the point of high school? (Having written it so many times now, I'm beginning to hate the word "school.") Oh right, to prepare for college (in the majority of cases. I have lots to say on this matter, but won't go there) So what's the purpose of college? Oh right, to prepare for (dun dun DUN) REAL LIFE." (I really clicked when you mentioned how that phrase kills you.) If real life has only just been reached, then what the fuck was all that leading up to it? Oh right, preparation. ... Wait a second. I just spent that much of my life in preparation for the real thing?? What was I doing, living "in a world of make-believe and unicorns?"
ReplyDeleteNow granted that there are for sure some people who genuinely enjoy the "preparation stage" of life. Those are eternal students for you. There's nothing wrong with that (other than all the money it'll cost them), it's just that that kind of system doesn't work for everybody. It's ironically childish how the system as [I] know it is set up in a way that treats everybody like a child, and the exact same child, with all the same needs and desires.
Thank goodness for alternative learning systems, even if I'm not involved in one.