To the Sister of the Greatest Girl in the World.
It came as a slight surprise to find out that my comments about college actually upset you. And now that I have probably irredeemably offended you, I still offer these words of explanation. In this attempt to clarify my position on education, college, and other related matters, I do not plan to retract my statements in some sort of ingratiating ( Read more... )
and I can't help but want to tell you to stop putting your self down. Stop saying that you have idiot comments or that you don't make sense. I just believe that we are not here to please others; to some you will makes sense while to others your opinion will remain a constant mystery. As for the actual content I must say that i agree with what you say, society (especially american) is one that is based on conditioning, beating a fucking idea into the masses' minds so they follow it without questioning hence the need for multimillionaire advertising campaigns and so on.
Life is one big contradiction, this is what i am starting to learn after thinking and thinking and making decisions--good and worse--and trying to figure something out. I was thinking about what you told me, your boss offering you an opportunity to start a high pay job, and how you turned it down. At first I was happy to reassure my belief that you are a person of substance that doesn't sell out that easily, then i started thinking how nice 100,000 a year would be, and then I looked back again and I remembered something my mom was telling me over the weekend. She came home and said "you are not going to believe what I just heard" and then she told me how she over heard her boss saying that she was the most miserable person in the world, that her life was so monotone...at the moment I wanted to puke, this is a person who does not have the need to work a shitty job 40 hours a week to barely support her family (as in my mom for example), this is a person who goes to Europe and anywhere about 4 times a year, a woman whose husband is a quite decent man, he manages to make an immense wealth for his family and still spend weekends with them and go on family vacations--I want to keep going cause this is a great example-- once a year over the summer they pay 100, 000 dollars a month to go live in a fancy estate by the beach, spas, new car every so often, nice home nice everything...and yet, she gets bored and depressed...This made me want to puke, like i already said, then It hit me, wealth isn't everything in the world, education isn't everything int he world, it's about what people like, about people following their dream, whether it involves earning a degree in English, Music, sociology or Communications (the most ridiculous degrees in the planet, when it comes to how well people with them do in the economical aspect of society)...I dont know, I do believe that people just agree with the fact that "school is the only way to make it" because we have been forced to believe so, instead of just trying to find out what we really love and what really fulfills us in life (sometimes it will be school, other times it won't, it all depends on the individual)
In my opinion no one can say that one way is the only way to go, especially in the US, where education is so mediocre yet so damn expensive and at the same time so many people have B.A.'s that they no longer have any worth in terms of earning you a decent way of life but only a huge debt(unless you are really rich, or really poor and somewhat smart)
Fuck it all, too much contradicition, makes it all seem pointless, yet we try to find the point to anything...
On a lighter note,forgetting about all the crap..wouldn't it be nice to just be cats, not have to worry about all this? I dont think so I enjoy being a damn human with beliefs and contradicitons and exceptions to the rule, being able to understand concepts(or being able to understand why we think we don't understand concepts :^S) is one of the things i enjoy most...anyway, we all think differently
PS. keep writing negro, it will help you (but to be honest mostly me) understand many things
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