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Well, this is my first entry in my new journal. Let me start by explaining the meaning behind my username: I think that public education is ridiculous, to an extent. Of course I know that today's society requires children to have a certain amount of education in order to be accepted into different jobs/careers. However, how far must we go until we're completely brainwashed and have spent the better part of our lives as educational robots? Common sense and common knowledge can mostly only be obtained through schooling, but once you've reached the point in your life when you know exactly what you want to do and where you want to go, and that you already have means of getting there, don't you think enough is enough? At this particular point, education begins to play the lesser role, and you begin to understand that all you need to know from then on comes from life's lessons. There is nothing more enriching to the mind (and more importantly, the soul) than to experience life firsthand instead of wasting yours away in a classroom. Psychiatrist? That's what I used to want to be, until I actually stopped to assess that I would be in a classroom for well over 15 years after high school. This upset me, because I then started thinking about the life I wanted for myself in 16 years: I want to be happily married and starting my own family. I want to live in a house full of personal touches, and a dog I can be there for all the time, and not just in my spare time. I want to shop and go to the movies. I want to do it with my husband night in and night out until the sun comes up. I want to read everything worth reading, and I want to go to Australia. I want to live in Hawaii...or at least visit. I want to lie in the sun and drink anything but beer until I can't see. I want to travel and stay at home and cook for my family and teach generations after mine about the paradise that life has to offer.
It was then I knew that the psychiatric field of study was obviously not for me. I'm too interested in life. I want to write. I want to write everything about my life and the life I could have had, had I chosen to take that path. I want to write memoirs and poetry and romance and love and excitement and depression and contentment. I want to write about danger and peril and irony. I also want to teach. I want to teach high school children that they don't have to be run-of-the-mill Ivy League graduates and earn $1,000,000 per year to be happy. I want to teach philosophy or writing. I can live my life and fulfill my passions without wasting time.
Although lots of money is nice and some people just can't get enough Math and Science, Life will ultimately come first, and if you put it last, you'll be very sorry and very regretful as you take your last breath.