hoeychloe:

More than dropping out of college or accepting a random offer…

I think this is my decision to cut myself off and break apart from society. It doesn’t mean I’m stopping my education. You don’t need a teacher or instructor to learn. You can do that on your own, and probably much better. You can learn everything, and anything, and you can have more time to fully enjoy it, and it won’t cost you a lot of money that you have to work for or pay back. The only thing missing is a document saying you know something. That you’ve put forth effort and time. All that’s missing is a number or a letter, measuring how much you know. All that’s missing is the approval of other people, who believe that you can’t learn anything on your own.

I’m not willing to work for grades or for paper, I don’t have anything to prove to anyone, and I’ll be damned if I slave away for hours working to pay thousands of dollars for either of those things, because knowing isn’t enough to get me anywhere. I’ll tell you, That isn’t someplace I want to be.

Maybe someday, I’ll come back to this superficial system, but for now, I’m content downtown in my apartment, painting and reading and learning and exploring and doing things that everyone else is too afraid to do.

When I die, I’ll be satisfied that I fulfilled my youth, that I laughed more than you, that I enjoyed every fucking moment, rather than contributing to the norm. I can say “I did that. I was there.” And you can say “I worked hard. I lived well. I did what I was supposed to.” And we will both die happy. I hope you never look back in retrospect, and ask if this routine is truly what you wanted. When you start to question is when you’ll start to regret, and I hope that not for a fleeting moment do you pause to think that maybe you should have gone for that crazy thing, because there’s no going back once you realize how superficial and shallow this whole society thing is.

I want you to be happy.

bjaurigue:

(via eletheowl)