A day in the life

Are we in touch with the things that truly give us pleasure? Do we spend the bulk of our lives “waiting” for the timing to be perfect before we venture into the unknown, cross the imaginary line that has been drawn for us by years of brainwashing and obedient education? To simplify, that is what school really is. If you think about the curriculum and structure of school it is simply to prepare us as adults to be subservient and obedient. To learn to turn our creativity on and off like a faucet, and worse not question the method and means.

While I agree that an education is paramount to a career, it is based more on the society we have created rather than embracing all people into a work situation they may very well excel in given guidance. We are also forced to overeducate ourselves at too young of an age to actually know what it is that interests us. Hence years of learning about subjects and graphs that may or may not benefit us in later years. We approach adulthood ready to work and to obey, content that we will let others do the thinking for us. There are free thinkers out there who create the comforts we can enjoy. We cannot all be scientist or entrepreneurs. We are all quite different. But one thing we all have in common I believe is an inner animal questing to be nourished somehow.

I have witnessed friends doing the things they abhor, things that make them emotionally and physically ill for most of their adult lives, out of fear. Fear of losing the stability that comes with a job, fear of losing the mate that signifies normalcy, fear of being in touch with the inner self that has been asleep due to years of programming. We may live in a society free to choose, to speak, to protest. Yet few seldom do. How free are you, really?

We need money. We have become reliant on what it represents, what we can purchase with it, the freedom it dangles in front of our noses. The ability of human beings to think at a high level is what defines and separates man from other animals. Thinking is what most makes human beings -human. To deny persons freedom of thought is to deny them their humanity and their potential. But the very freedom we take for granted and fight so hard to attain by working our entire lives without exploring all the other options in life creates a sort of loss of freedom that by the time you realize it, you lack the will and energy to change. What do you want to be when you grow up? And if you are not sure, or if it is ever changing, does this mean you are someone unimportant?

Explore, even if it only be in your backyard, the exploration is one of spirit and mind. Like Captain James T Kirk said “to boldly go where no man has gone before.”