My Personal 9–5
Are you a teenager, or 9–5'er, who wants to quit the thing — but can’t? Come join us, you’re gonna have a fun trip.
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Oh, my personal 9–5? (instant smug appears on my face, somehow)
Allright for me, no drama, it’s school.
Just take a look at these, and tell one big difference in between.
If i were asked the question, i’d inspect for 2 hours and still would not tell any. Small changes here and there, that’s it.
Examining the System
For a long time in human history, there was no such thing called “formal education”. Everybody living was a freelancer: You were your own employer, and the best way to live was to learn by doing. So there was no one standing, you sitting, doing nothing and only hearing them for inhumanely long time period.
My Perspective on the Issue
The reason why my own 9–5 jackpots to school is that, i do not find any value in it. This might be true just for my perspective, putting my school’s education understanding, the scarcity of opportunities given to the youth there, and the basic relationships between the elderly and the upcomers(us).
No matter what inputs led to my disgust, i want to get “the hell” outta it — like most 9–5'ers do. Again, like most 9–5'ers: I can’t. Therefore we gotta find an alternative.
I spent most of my life living a reactive life. I was good at noticing the downsides around me, which was my only area of focus. After going through life-changing experiences over the past 10 months, atll my views, perspectives, however you’d like to call, have changed. I felt like more human — more me, myself.
What can be done, then?
Same perspective can be used for the school issue. Yes, it makes me wanna feel so negative and reactive about it i could spill out words of sort for pages after pages — but i won’t. Being reactive, or overall, negative, doesn’t help anything. You just make your life a worse place to live. Many of the practical wisdom gurus i’ve encountered my life, whether physically or any other way, suggest searching out a way out. It might not be as impactful as, say, quitting school — yet it works.
So, my overall advice: Get to work, and quit the reactive state. Your life will be better in quality after that.
Closing Up
Normally, it’s not my fashion to leave the closeup with a wise quote. YET, since i found it more impactful than i first thought from the impression it gave, i’ll leave it out with these lines. They might help you, or not — the point is what leaves you pondering after encountering quotes such as these:
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius
The quote is from the book “Meditations” by the man himself, the legendary emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
That’s it for day 2. I will always stick myself with “Quantity leads to quality.”. We are all more capable than we might think we are. We are all learning machine in the essence. That’s how we survived for thousands of years, right?
Cheers.
