So, I guess this is going to be a ranty-mc-rant-rant. Look, I don't know what to say except for FUUUUUUUUUUUUU- EDUCATION IN GENERAL
Yessir.
Having been at this 'law degree' thing for almost a year and a half, I've met some very interesting people (a mere handful of which that are actually doing the damn degree, those that ARE actually studying law are usually the diametric opposite). And I can't help but wonder, why are you here? What influenced YOU so greatly to tick that little box on the QTAC form directing you towards THIS.
Sometimes people say they have always wanted to do whatever it is they are doing. Sometimes people's parents have made them. Sometimes people's parents have inadvertently hammered it into their children's brains that THIS is what they SHOULD in fact, be doing! Mum and dad are always right... Right? The way I see it (this sounds bad) one day, Mum and Dad will die. Then what????
I guess what I'm trying to say is I just cannot fathom a 12 year old waking up and saying 'I WANT TO BE A LAWYER' or 'I WANT TO BE AN ECONOMIST'. Wholly shit, LITTLE TWELVE YEAR OLD KID, GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!
I'm by no-means saying that people should not study law, C.I., business, or any other discipline. Nor am I saying that following your parents' advice is going to be a bad thing. It's just that realistically, kids have no idea what they are getting into! It is horrendously unfair that by the age of FIFTEEN-SIXTEEN, schools are already trying to pressure kids into choosing electives to 'shape their career pathway'. It's bullshit. When I was fifteen, I was still wearing a Naruto headband and learning j-pop dances. (Oh wait, I'm 19 and I still do that. Awkward.) Grade 7 is now HIGH SCHOOL, right? Or it is implemented in two years or something... DAFUQ WERE YOU THINKING, GOVERNMENT. In a generic kid's first year at high school, they are freaked out enough about trying to fit in (just not me... I was happy listening to Black Sabbath and watching Lizzie McGuire. I don't even know, leave me alone, okay). That first year of high school shapes you so much, and you GROW UP so much! To thrust onto kids (ELEVEN YEAR OLDS) all of these adult responsibilities, and ideas... BULLLSHIIIIT. It is all interlinked.
They are making consumers out of children younger, as well. Every five year old has to have a fucking iPad, a laptop, a PHONE. ALL OF THESE TOTALLY UNNATURAL THINGS. Look at the designer fucking clothes made especially for under 12 year olds. Oh my goodness, go play in the sand pit and make mud pies and rip holes in your shirts whilst playing tiggy or something. The age kids are losing their virginity? Probably the age I was concerned about losing Pokemon battles (Oh wait, I still worry about that... God damn it, I am not a good example). Look at the rates of depression that have sky rocketed in the past ten years. Is that any surprise? Well, not to me (but then again depression is natural, and again, I will endeavor to write about this also).
Look, if you couldn't tell, it just totally shits me. Can we not let kids be kids, and let them make up their own minds about things?
This rant could go on forever. I could talk about the impact of said things, and how it is forcing people to have unrealistic expectations of themselves. The fact that people feel obliged to live life in this approved little cycle that is the social norm-- go to school, go to uni, get a job, get married, have kids, retire, die. I could talk about how what people are studying shape the way that they feel obliged to Act. I could talk about so many things that are the result of the bullshit expectations put on us all...
But I'll save that for another day. ;)
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