Everyone tells me not to drop out of school. “It’s your key to the future,” “Don't be stupid,” “I won’t talk to you anymore,” “ You won’t make anything out of your life.” Well this all may be true, here's my opinion about the school system.
I feel like the way that the school system is set up is just terrible. We sit on our butt for literally 7 hours a day 5 days per week! No wonder the obesity rates are going up. They teach us that there is no blue ribbon for failure or creativity. They give pills to the kids who can’t sit still and they fill us with the past when we should be creating our future. Everything we need to know is on our iPhones. The skills we need to be successful are already instilled within our minds, they just need to be opened. So how do you open up your mind? You go out and explore. You take risks, you fail, you get back up and try again. You watch movies and read books and talk to people. You meet new people and get new ideas. You EXPERIENCE the world.
The system is not set up so kids will get to experience the world. The system is set up to take all of the money we don’t have and then make us feel like we should have tried just a little harder. Cramming our heads with facts all day and making us memorise things just to pass the test is such a waste of time. Once you are out of highschool all you have is what they taught you in school. All you have is what someone else wanted you to know. It’s not what is going to help you be successful like knowing how to manage money, be creative, open your mind, find your passion, succeed, and take care of yourself! They teach us math, english, reading, and science. If you do well in science they tell you to go be a scientist, do well in math they tell you to go be a mathematician. They tell you what to do and who to be, in some kids’ minds that is their only option if they want to be successful. That is all that you leave high school with, and college you leave with tons of debt, wasted time, and still not a single clue what you really want to do with your life. You haven’t had time to create yourself because you’ve been going through the system.
After college you get a lousy 9-5 job just like everyone else to pay off your debt. You get a car that you probably can’t afford and you live off of ramen noodles and McDonalds for the next couple years. Have you done anything to create yourself? Have you done anything to change the world? Are you ever going to? By the time you realize how much time you wasted in school it is already too late. You can’t go back and save all that money for something else, like traveling the world. You can’t go back and choose a different path because what you were taught is all you know. You never had time to create and to explore. All you had time to do was study and work. Now you have kids, and you want them to have a better life than you ever did. But you don’t know how to make it better for them, so you send them to school just like everyone else. You put them through the system. You watch them do the same shit that you did, and they grow up to be just like you. That’s all they ever knew and nothing has changed. You didn’t change the world and neither will your children. You didn’t experience the world and neither will your children. You played it safe and stayed in your little bubble, your entire life has gone by with little to show. I don’t want to be like you. I want to go out and change the world. I want to do everything that anyone has ever told me I wasn't capable of. I want to have fun and do what I love, then share it with other people. I want to inspire people. When I’m dead I want to be remembered as the one who followed her dreams, not just another mediocre life with little to show. So stop telling me what to do. Get off your ass and go experience the world. The clock is ticking.
