Clearly I rushed into the idea of making a blog before I had even
decided what I wanted to write about. I still haven't fully decided, but I
guess it will come to me soon, seen as I have now got a lot of spare time on my
hands and I constantly have a lot on my mind.I have finally finished my first year at
university and I'm still struggling with how fast time is flying.
The pressures
of succeeding and doing well are always something which will remain to be of
strong importance, but I feel as though I am on my own. I have no encouragement
or guidance in gaining experience or building my knowledge of the wider world.
However I feel like it is just something that I know I should be done. University has opened my eyes to the varying attitudes towards learning and education. Without singling anyone of specifically the majority of the people that I have meet who have already come from wealthy and successful backgrounds are the ones who slack the most. Their ‘I don’t care’ attitudes towards the concept of learning and bettering yourself puzzle me massively. With that being said I have still met people who have come from poor backgrounds who don’t attend lectures, struggle to pay rent, and use their student loans to feed their drug addictions.
Society
and education teaches us that in order to do well we need to work hard and it
will all work out. But the bigger picture breaches far wider that simply
working hard. Success is about networking, who you know (and sometimes who you
don’t) which evidently builds the opportunities available to you. We are taught
the each chronological step we should follow in order to live our lives 'correctly': Go to school,
get a job, get married and have children. Is
this living?
We are all copies.
Products of the system
There must be more to life than this.
Right?
