who am i?

favorite quote of the day:

Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being
play—work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.
Society has a cornucopia of resources to encourage you in doing what
society needs done but that you don't much like doing and are not cut out to
do. To ease your grief, society offers alcohol, television, drugs, divorce,
and buying, buying, buying what you don't need.
If you advance in the direction of someone else's dreams, if you want to live
someone else's life rather than yours, then get a TV for every room, buy
yourself a lifetime supply of your favorite quaff, crank up the porn
channel, and groove away.

  — Mark Edmundson from "Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?"

 

 

obviously sort of cobbled together,

and not quite as coherent as the original

article, but what i took away is this - 

education is the time to figure out what

you want to do. not the time to just do what

society, your parents, even you yourself

have decided you should do. i did that many times

over and it never worked. hopefully this time

i am figuring it out a little bit more. and i

am so grateful for the time and opportunity

to do that. and i hope i can give my kids

that gift, too.