An Image

[cloe900311]

An image is all you live with.

You preach about education,
its importance and value in society.
You want all your descendants to be educated -
"well-mannered and educated" you always insist.

But what else do you see?
How about my personality?
How about my likes and dislikes?

Or what about my happiness?
Would you support me if I tossed aside my education -
even for a few months?

(How would you feel?)
Do you even know what I'm thinking?

Why do you insist you care?
You say you want to see how my school is like,
but all you do is look at its buildings,
take a few pictures,
and leave...

What do you really care about?

Your status?
Your pride?

You degrade those who are 'below' you -
they're 'below' you because they're not as educated,
they don't have as much money as you,
or have children who are not educated either.

So is that what makes you prideful?
The fact that you have smart relatives?
Relatives who push towards the future,
and have stable jobs?

But what's wrong with settling down early,
and having a stable job without post-secondary education?
What's wrong with being a hair-cutter instead of a lawyer?

I don't understand your priority:
of having an image and doing what you think is required.
I don't understand...I simply do not.