09 May 2006
8:42 PM
have you ever questioned the meaning of your life? have you ever wondered whether there was this better life out there, somewhere, in some place you'll never find... maybe you never were meant to find it. maybe you're here in this life for some reason.
but what if that life can be found? what if we never knew it existed, and we never sought for it. what if we could just turn our lives around right now and reach for something better, something we really desire, something that'd make us truly happy. i don't mean a world of no conflict, pain or sorrow. i mean a life that we want. that we deserve to get. something that's not like the life we have now. maybe it's out there. maybe it's waiting for you, and it wants to be found. who has found it? who has even
tried to find it? what if this world really exsists?! there may be this place. paradise? maybe it's heaven. i know heaven's gonna be a perfect place to live in. (so much about that in 40DOP) but really. have you ever questioned your life. what if our lives are not meant to be this way. what if we could overturn conventions and seek that something better. the something all of us have probably quietly hoped for, no matter how slight, but have never realised how much we wanna achieve it. what if.
think about it in the most cliche, childish, immature, foolish, typical student pov. then again, if all these were true, it would be anything but cliche, childish, immature, foolish, typical student. yeah, it's cause we keep stopping ourselves from thinking by saying that it's just dumb and not worth our thoughts or time. we're so caught up in the world today that we don't even think straight and think freely. we're influenced by everything around us. we're losing our minds. we're losing our inner selves. we're losing the person we ought to be. we're conforming to the world and we're unable to truly express ourselves the way we should. and i have digressed. back to the point. yeah, think of it in a really really out-of-your-mind way for once. just this ONCE, and that could lead to more than once. imagine a life without school. (please, stop telling me about wishful thinking and "accepting the sad reality". i said THINK DIFFERENTLY.) imagine. imagine if the moment we were born into this world, we were just left to fend for ourselves frrom the start. learn to live by trying, testing, groping, looking, searching, finding out about the world by ourselves. imagine if for these 20+ years of education, we instead just roam around the earth in search of what we really want and need. and instead of spending day after day after day after day studying, doing homework, going to school for more than half the day... we woke up every morning to lead totally different lives. in fact, maybe we would start working at the age of like 10 or something. cause by then we might have found our goals and aspirations already, and started working towards that. wouldn't that still be meaningful?
it all boils down to the fact that education is a NECESSITY for survival now. but are you sure? do you think getting great grades or 3.8 GPA's got big shots like mark schwahn (oth writer) or any film star where they currently are? tell me, how does maths teach you to act well? count the number of seconds you will have to cry for in order to convince your audience?! even that doesn't need algebra or graphs. what. plot the number of seconds to how convinced people will be. how does science teach you to act well. make sure you feel that
chemistry between you and the cast when acting? how does geography teach you to direct a film well. choose the best scenery as backdrop for the scene? (even that doesn't come under geog.) SERIOUSLY! i mean, yeah of course if you're aiming to be a scientist or doctor or those high-flying jobs you'll need education. but what if you're gonna become a singer or actor or film director or something like that. to what extent woulf your education have helped? would you have just wasted 20 or so years of your life?! what IF! you already have this road marked out, you're sure of what you're gonna do and where you're gonna go. what if you're sure that this path you're taking needs NO academic excellence or straight As. what if you know that you can just drop out of school and your life would be better cause you know where you;'re heading next and it's gonna be a success. anyway, even if it doesn't prove successful in the initial stages and may actually disappoint you (when does that never happen. people don't fly before they walk.), the PASSION you have for it will definitely make you go far.
there are SO MANY things in life more meaningful than education and studies. and to how great an extent does education make you a really successful person in the real world?! look at other countries that have high-flyers everywhere and do you think these people mugged and mugger non-stop in their school days to get 3.8 GPAs? so many famous people now proudly proclaim that they used to be school-dropouts, failures, outcasts...but how did they get this far?! how did they even get where they are now? how much can education help?!
kaiyan actually said that if i start this trend she and marissa may actually follow and then i could possibly motivate so many other students to do the same, knowing that it might be promising after all. but you see, obviously it's easy to say and in truth not a lot of people will. they don't DARE TO BE DIFFERENT. it's just so in-grained in us that all we have to do is study and study and study and that's gonna get us somewhere in society. people say you have a bright future ahead if you like go to RGS, RJC, Oxford University...people say that less to those who have been child prodigies at music, for example, from the age of 3 or something. (and just nice, the TV is having some trailer on beethoven and mozart, some CD...) cause why?! education means everything to us! we cannot live without knowing our maths and science and history and geography and literature and who knows what else they have not in sec school!
and anyway, even if i dared do this, i still don't have specific goals and long-term aspirations for my life yet. so i can't. and it's really sad, eh?
just imagine.what would it be like?
