I have failed countless times to update this blog, and I have a feeling no one really reads anymore. However, since this was where I started writing it always feels most comforting to return to write short bit about my life here

I was browsing today this article where a number of individuals had submitted pictures or scans of their teenage diaries. I have hardly graduated out of teenhood myself; once a very interesting character told me that you don't truly stop being a teen until you've passed 25 years of age. Sometimes not even then. Yet I can't help but look at (the now hidden) entries that used to chronicle my life in secondary school and then in junior college. I was a very different person then, and yet, not so.

As I write this now, I am waiting for myself to fall asleep, for the memories in my head to die down so I may just tumble into a nice dreamless sleep.

Yet sleep evades me, as it naturally does when you need to wake mere hours later for the most important task of school. It feels so new all over again, because people just come and go and come back again.

But enough of my rambling, I should really try to at least close my eyes and lay down, and hope that eventually sleep will take me.

To all those people who left my life, I miss you. You know who you are

<3 M

tiistaina, marraskuuta 21, 2006

education, educated, educatified

so so so.

i know its one thing to be educated. and another thing to be well educated.

and then its another thing to succeed when well educated, and then succeed without having a nice picture of your university graduation.

i do like to do the primary school "waaaah" and die of awe when i see people with Dr. in front of their names, or who have walls plastered with certificates of this and that, and who graduated from prestigious universities and all.

but if i compare them to those people who've made it big without the certification, then i would say i'm more in awe of the latter. its a heck of a lot more difficult trying to make it when you don't have the credentials.

and then i wonder, if, just if those people who have those certificates and that experience that that ivy league school, didn't go through tertiary education. if they would be as successful. education opens up many many opportunities, more so if you are from a good school. since the world is elitist in that way.

but seriously, if we assume that these people didn't have their certificates, would they make it?

if they did, maybe it would be because they have a fire in their belly during their academic years that translates onto the streets.

if they didn't it just means they graduated and then made use of the many and varied opportunites they got access to when they managed to get hold of that cert. which, is not wrong, since we're supposed to make the best out of what we have. they happen to be in the position to be able to make the best of the best.

but people who don't have a cert, well, they have no choice now do they? they have to make do with what little they have, and sometimes, it can be really really really little. it goes three ways 1. you become a criminal, go to jail and live off the state 2. you become a beggar and live off the state 3. you work hard in walmart and become the manager. 4. you become really famous either due to entrepreneural skill or some other talent you possess.

so really, if you succeed when you're not well educated, it means you have other virtues that are better than the fastest working brain on earth. it means you have talent, or persistence, or endurance, or simply an ego and self confidence that inflates like a magical souffle in a hot oven even after being collapsed repeatedly (just picture andy)

it doesn't mean ppl who succeed and have a good education don't. its just that its not as necessary for a person with good education who has good job prospects to have them, or to cultivate them as a person who doesn't. then they have to rely on their character to pull them through, and not just their brains.

given, there are people with both brains and say, talent, and that makes for a potent combination in a person. basically, they could have the world, if they just tried to get it. the brainy ones with no talent/beauty/creativity/spirit would lose out to them.

so what does that really say about being well-educated/brainy. besides just gaining you good job prospects, is it really of any use at all? personally, i'd like to be married to a charming, kind and humourous person who might or might not be good looking rather than a walking encyclopedia or a walking CPU who would probably just bore the life out of me.

and then some people who hardly had a good education have tons more money than those who do. many, in fact. does that, sorta undermine education as a means to prepare someone for the workforce?

then wouldn't what the world, what the employers look for not be actually be credentials but talent, creativity, a good personality and sometimes even good looks?

then wouldn't good education be redundant, except to get you your first job? (which, admittedly, is rather crucial)

i don't know. i never have all the answers and this is one instance.

marlz

tiistaina, marraskuuta 21, 2006

education, educated, educatified

11/21/2006 04:26:00 ip.

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