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Seems to be a word that has millions of different meanings. I always found depression to be the numbness of human emtions...Ice cream never tastes as good when your depressed and a shiny new car never seems so bright. When your depressed nothing seems good anymore.

Recently i applied to some colleges banking on the fact that theyd see i had a pretty screwed up life and the my confession to goofing off early on in hs maintaining a 1.5 but end of junior year i started to realize the importance of school and pulled my grades up to a 3.5. But all three colleges i applied to rejected me even though some of my friends who i find have terrible judgement(getting wasted everyweekend and just being stupid driving drunk etc) got into these colleges. Everyone always says lifes not fair but when it really does seem unfair its quite frustrating. I feel i turned my life around and worked my ass off in school for nothing...Now i will have to prolly go to nova and waste another year of my life. Since now hs just seems like a wasted 4 years.

I wanna know what you guys think about this thought i had today.
Do you think that people would be more motivated if life was more in their own hands and they had the choice to do what they wanted to do. With me i always felt i learned from my mistakes, so if i got a speeding ticket i wouldn't speed so excessively or if i got caught smoking pot i wouldnt do it anymore. With school i felt that i wish it wasn't manditory. I wish i could go out in the world on my own and realize for myself why education is important instead of being told it is. It seems that when people are giving the opportunity of education they strive to be the best whereas kids that are forced to be educated always complain about school. Take a kid that has nothing in Africa but when given the chance to be educated you always hear the heart warming stories of kids with nothing but books that go far in life. I wish that i could have lived life and found out for myself how important school is instead of going to hs for 4 years and finding it pointless and wasting my time not learning. Because now that i am not going to college and have met the ppl in some of the jobs that ive worked that havn't gone to college i have a new found motivation to get educated. I think i could have found this much earlier on if i was given the chance to live life on my own and choose whether or not school was important. But maybe this just applies to me and not everyone

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Discreet wrote:

Do you think that people would be more motivated if life was more in their own hands and they had the choice to do what they wanted to do.

Yes, yes, absolutely, yes.

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if i got caught smoking pot i wouldnt do it anymore.

Get caught? :wink:

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With school i felt that i wish it wasn't manditory. I wish i could go out in the world on my own and realize for myself why education is important instead of being told it is.

But... it's not (important that is). Knowledge is valuable but the relationship between education and knowledge is relatively arbitrary. I wish society had far less obsession with "education".

Quick thought. Imagine a world in which no education facility receives any formal acceptance, reputation or official weight at all. All that exists are testing centres where your knowledge on any one of thousands of subjects can be assessed on an objective (or at least one single official) standard.

Naturally there would be businesses that teach you the knowledge necessary to pass these tests but the fact that you've been to one is meaningless.

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I think that rather than try to find a way to become motivated to be educated, you should find your own rhythm and do what you feel is best.

Do you want a job that requires this education? If so, then why not start your own chapter instead?
Do you want to work at a job that, according to society, isn't up to par, yet feel pressured to excell at this and that..? If so, STOP. Don't give in, do what you want.

Continue applying at colleges, don't be distracted by reputations or prominence - if you (sincerely) want the education, then get it by any means.

I think that a lot of people become "depressed" over schooling and work, because they feel the need to follow soceity's standards of what they should be doing. It sounds like this is one of those cases... just remember to keep your chin up, and that there are always other chances. Do whatever you feel strongly about, and don't be put down by a few rejections (What's that race of life worth if you don't get knocked down a couple of times? Get back up...).

Good luck!

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Good thoughts thanx now i don't feel as helpless

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