Try Again?

So....I enrolled in college. I tried back in 2002, the year after high school as well, which got me nowhere. Between not being motivated, not feeling that I fit in, and the freedom of not being held accountable for being absent or not - I was gone nearly every class.

But hey. I was 18, and hanging out with friends and making raps was more important to me at the time.

Five years pass, I am in the Marines, and I am offered another opportunity to go to school. So...I try again.

I decide that working with youth has always interested me, so I will take a class in education.

Two classes have passed, and I have already decided that I would rather get a weekly papsmear than go to this class.

It is nothing against the teacher (who is incredible), my classmates (who are very open and friendly), or even the curriculum (which I have no room to debate anyway). It is the science, politics, and social circles that come with "teaching".

You can't just get a job, obtain a degree, or even make a group of friends, without conforming to what has already been set into motion before you got there.

What a sad revelation to come to.

To lose all faith in something you have such a high passion for in such a short time.

Perhaps that class made it all worth it. This one, I will actually finish.

Stay class, Okinawa.