thoughts

• ya know, a large majority of students I know from Harvard, are starting their own programs
• that or in medical school
• but i wonder what it is about that institution that grooms students to actually beleive that they are capable and deserving of startng their own
• i think thats what it comes down to, many of us don't believe that its in the cards for us to have a fulfilling dream come true type of profession
• its something we fantasize about and then when it comes to reality especially in this economy and with student loans, we simply grovel and take anything that pays us a check
• and we subdue our dreams with the notion that this is just "for now" that "someday" we will be able to do what we want
• but how many people actually ever get there?
• it is much easier to take risks and to fail in our younger years, when we don't have little mouths to feed and a mortgage and dogs to walk everyday and a marriage to keep intact
• but today the youth in many places are numbed by continous, repetitive activities that lead to no actual productive outcome, such as video games, or watching movies, youth spend hours and energy pouring into these manufactured scenarios and have nothing to show for it after beating the ultimate level
  
  
  • then what? its on to the next mindnumbing hour sucking simulated success.
  • we are glued to our computers, our cell phones, constantly reading about what others are doing right now
  • but when does that "someday" become tomorrow?
    • when do we get a jolt to put us into action to actually manifest that dream
    • we're not going to get a tweet to remind us that time is plodding by or a reminder on our iphone to write that book you've always imagined, or take a class which will open up doors
    • no, we live in a culture of fear, of the applauding of those who conform, and thos who are successful
    • but behind each success is failures
    • yet during those failures, everyone is actually pitifully encouraging us to give it up, to take that "real" job and stop with our fantasies
    • but, for those greats who finally achieve, the steve jobs and bill gates, suddenly they are revered
    • what is wrong with that picture?
    • that trying and failing or any type of rebellion from the normal realm of what is expected, any deviation from our culture our classes concept of what defines success, be that a business suit or a law degree, is criticized, alienated, ostracized
    • until those few crazy ones manage to create something incredible, and then suddenly everyone wants to say how they knew it all along
    • ‎"The rebellions that are happening around the globe today, it is people becoming awake and aware, stopping to think about what is happening,
      stopping to finally analyze and consider if everything they have been raised to placidly accept is actually "just how it is", and if that means "how it has to be".
      We are the ones who are scratching our heads and stepping away from the TV and turning off our auto-pilot to question, to wonder, to critically consider...and, we are coming to the seemingly radical conclusion that "this" in fact, is not necessary. That this scrambling, clinging, paycheck to paycheck lifestyle does not have to characterize our few decades on this earth. It is dawning on us after centuries of technological progress dulled our most innate human qualities, that you, that I, despite not holding public office or having many zeroes in our bank account, actually still have power. That what sets us apart from our comrade animals is supposedly our minds and ability to reason and discern. We are finally coming together as humans, living and working together in community, on a small scale local level, and seeing our neighbor as a person, worthy of being assisted, not just annoying sounds heard through a wall. And are we being applauded? supported? held up as heroes in news stories to celebrate our rebirth into consciousness? No, instead we are being undermined, penalized, ignored, dismissed as chaotic, disorganized, unproductive. But isn't that how all great changes come about?
      First, the conclusion that what currently exists is failing, and thus to create solutions one must imagine what something could be, before it is. It is like trying to put together a puzzle with many pieces which do not yet fit together,
      one has to cut them and shape them and constantly modify them until all four sides fit with their partners, not only physically into place but maintaining the right parts of an image on their surface, it is a messy process, filled with mistakes, trial and error, sometimes starting over completely, but, in the end, when each piece connects smoothly, an entirely new image will be born. And, like many finished masterpieces, only then will the people praise it. We are the builders, the construction workers, the designers, the artists, the engineers, the dreamers, the revolutionaries, and without us, nothing would ever change."