if you had the resources and time to go back to school, what would you study?

Well, I guess vacation is over. After what has felt like 13 years without writing, I’m back.

Here lies an allusion. It’s buried in a prompt with a non-conventional positive connotation. When we delve into this ‘what if’ it very much reminds us of the socially ‘eloquent’ question “what do you want to do now?”

As you can probably guess, answering this question has always been a bit of a nuisance. Especially so as an individual invested so deeply in phases of transition.

Personally, I’ve transitioned plenty. From my childhood home to my parent’s current refuge. From playing basketball and volleyball with fierce competitive spirit, to merely for the sake of upping the heart rate.

I’ve transitioned from high school to university, with minimal conviction concerning my future. Science made it’s call thanks to a relatively easy streak of arbitrarily good numbers. I rebutted after my father made a seemingly insurmountable decision sound more straight-forward than I’d ever imagined.

On a more universal stage, my infatuation with transition and change developed from a passion for education. I’ve studied transition in other students. Conversationally, I have watched countless friends, acquaintances, and foes meticulously chase comfort, embrace change and adapt.

I’ve also watched some do the opposite.

So. If.

If I had the time (which I sort of do) and the resources (which I hope I’d be able to accumulate) I’d want to study skill. I’d love to master something, but I have too much fun learning everyday while I work to bother just yet. I’d want to study design. or photography. or the craft of a luthier. I’d study to become a better writer.

If I know one thing, for the rest of my life, I want to keep my hands busy. I want to remain the dumbest person in the room, and strive to match the skill of the most advanced. In a way, all we really have is time to study. and though minute, it’s important that we understand that basic concept.

As long as I wake up everyday, and try my damn hardest to produce, that’s learning enough on its own. But to enhance that learning, one is required to surround oneself with the greatest minds. So I will find my way back into a classroom, if only to study the art of learning.