Important and harsh words...

So for my first blog entry, I would like to write about something that, I feel, has to be adressed urgently.
As many of you probably, I am at a stage of my life where I have to make a big decision.
I can either go to university and study, or do something, anything, else (which would result in an apocalypse).


Why?

I was raised in a quite conservative way concerning school.
School was always the most important thing - top priority. 
My entire life I heard :  
''Why didn't u get a better grade?''
''Why don't you try harder? Your grades have to be good!''


Well,

Because I don't want to.

(outraged gasp)




What if I told you that my grades do not reflect my intelligence?
My social status will not rise if I score full points on a test and I am definitely not dumb because I don't have straight A's.
Grades are just another method of creating competition between people.
How much you know and how smart you are does NOT depend on school grades.
The things you are interested in and want to know about will be the ones you will remember.
Everyone is smarter than someone else at some point - in some area of knowledge.




The life-concept of most of the people that surround me, is the following:

When you turn 6, you will start going to school. You'll do that for 12 years and then go to University for some more school. After having spent at least 18 years of your life ''learning'' , you will - completely exhausted and probably not significantly more intelligent than someone who did not spend $40.000/year for college - start a 9-to-5 job that will quiet certainly extract every bit of joy and hapiness you have left inside of you.

You'll end up having spent you're entire life doing what you were supposed to do and what was expected from you. You will have lived a life with the same routine every day and you will not have properly lived or enjoyed it, nor created any worthy memories.

At some point you'll die, of course, and - if you wake up from this trance that you call your ''mentality'' or ''morals'' (happens about 2% of the time) - probably regret every second of how you spent your life. But it's to late to change that now, so BAM. You're dead.

Oh, one more thing: The depts of the money that you had to take up to get super-smart in college which you've been trying to pay off your entire life without success will be left to your kids.

Good job.

  

This exactly is why I think:

I do not HAVE to do anything.
Nobody can tell me what's right and what's wrong because (at least for now) we are INDIVIDUALS and what's right and wrong to me, could be different to what's right and wrong to you.
I can do whatever I wish to do with my life. I am free to decide the way I'm going to live it. I am not below anyone or stupid just because I don't want to earn a living by sitting in an office for 10 hours every day for the rest of my life. This does not make me a bad person. It does not mean that I live my life ''the wrong way''.
It just means that I don't want to let social pressure and morals of people other than myself decide how my life is going to be.
MY life means that I have to live it.


Sometimes i feel like we live in a world full of idiot robots. (no offense)

No-one can justify why they do what they do and believe what they believe. Why this is ''right'' or ''what people do''.
Nobody thinks individually or decides for themselves.
Of course it's easier to just take over an opinion instead of building one's own, but it's a waste of what we are.
We have the freedom to make our own decicions about our life and I believe that everybody should take a grand use of that.



Lilly




This is a personal blog post.
I have written down my own thoughts and my own point of view and I DO NOT mean to offend anyone in any way.