i often have to remind myself of this. each day i am alive, i am able to learn something. each day i am able to learn something, i am able to live. learning takes many forms. it can be very literal: i go to a class, a teacher passes me knowledge, i am tested. other times it is more figurative: i take the time on my way to a coffee shop to feel the air as it enters my body, cold and crisp in the winter; to feel my feet in my shoes, on the sturdy but broken concrete as i walk. . . . → Read More: language as contribution
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i believe in fate. i believe in fate, not as some pre-determined destiny; decided path; inevitable fixed truth, but instead as an ideal. i believe in fate, by which i mean the possibility of Self. my fate is not who i will be, already decided for me, but who i may be, who i can be, who i am capable of being. my fate is the destiny of my best Self. and my life is a journey in attempt to reach this ideal, to live my potential. my destiny is the life of who i am when i am whole. of course, life is not lived in a vacuum. things happen, good and bad. chance, luck, access: these things matter. each has an impact on my ability to reach this fated goal of Self. but, i believe the most important part of this quest is choice. . . . → Read More: fate and the possibility of connection what are our schools doing? who are they creating? it seems to me we’re are simply churning out workers. people go to college not to learn, but to get a degree, a piece of paper, to ensure that they make more money at a job. think about it. how could our world be different if people did what they love? if we had a society that allowed each of us to figure out what that is! imagine if we were encouraged to follow our hearts. if we were taught to learn because it made us better people. imagine if we stopped putting education on a pedestal. a pedestal only meant for certain people. imagine if we had education that taught people not just to think, but to be better at whatever they love, at whatever they want to do…thinking or not. imagine if our schools taught us how to better versions of ourselves. . . . → Read More: education and the Self |
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