Failed....left.....got a job. Understood what a waste of time it was for someone like myself to have bothered, a few years of my life I regretted and hated.
However when I look at my fellow classmates, I realise I actually have it better than I thought. I've been incredibly lucky, really, I have mostly just slid around getting jobs by knowing people.
I suppose it helps that I never had any great ambitions, I saw myself as small and simple and so I have led a small and simple life. Perhaps it is that ultimately I always saw our systems that we impose on the world like they were made of glass, one bump and a crack appears.....another bump and the crack spreads....until that one day when it shatters.
This has happened so often throughout history and every time it does, people finally....for once, know themselves and understand the ridiculousness of it all. The status...the titles, they mean nothing except by the consent of those who prop them up.
And we're all consenting....all the time, often without realising it.
Power of imagination I suppose, we believe the structure works...so it does. It certainly is amusing to see how superfluous education is becoming, not because education is unnecessary, but because it is so often wasted on those who only engage in it because they are either told to, or because everyone else is.
Shame really, learning should be about the love and lust for knowledge and understanding, not a framed piece of paper allowing the opening of doors. Although I don't wish to diminish the amount of hard work people put in for those pieces of paper, but we cannot all have them and all expect an open door.