Life And (not my) Choices

I believe that life is about choices I have to choose. Every choice I choose will lead me to other choices and so on. But that's not always true, because I don't always get to choose. Sometimes, there is no other way, sometimes, I'm forced to, sometimes, others choose for me, sometimes, I don't want to choose at all. Oh yeah, sometimes, the almighty "You Know Who" is the chooser. (Hey, I try to be fair here, every religion has different names for the almighty "You Know Who", just to be clear, I'm not talking about you, in case you're not that literate)

The first thing that I didn't have the chance to raise up my voice was "Where will I be born", I also couldn't choose what time (my birthday), by whom (my parents), neither my name. Name, yeah, I will carry this name, from the day I was born, until the end of my life, it's a big thing, but I had no choice. Imagine if my name's "Dick Face", and I someday be the director of a giant company. "Hello, my name is "Dick Face", the director of this company and your new boss" (hahaha, sorry, no offence intended). Oh, I can't pick my traits either, if I could, I'd be a "heartless creative genius with unbelievable reasoning ability and lives this life for the sake of nothing but wasting time" (boring . . .)

Then next, my parents, and so did your parents (maybe) were sick of us running wild everywhere while they were working. So they put us in school, "the place where all the kids are gathered together and supervised by some special assigned adults called teachers", so they didn't have to watch us and able to get their jobs done.

Many years ago, when the world weren't as advanced as now, people went into workplace early in their lives. There was really nothing much to learn, school was short, only a few of them complete a degree from university. Now? No, complicated stuff are more than ever, people need more training time, a degree from university is common now, that means, most people at least are 20++ years old before they get into workplace. Do we really need that much time? Not really, but yeah, we need to wait for our brains to be developed before we are able to comprehend those complicated stuff (You won't try to teach analysis, algebra, statistic, and matrix to a 9 years old kid, will you? Unless that kid is a genius). So maybe that's why we were fed meaningless facts to memorise at school, while waiting for the brains to be developed. Yep, rather than letting us run wild everywhere and distract the adults from doing their jobs, they kept us in school, memorising meaningless facts. I didn’t have the choice to skip remembering those meaningless facts. I was forced and made to memorise them. (Ugh... falling asleep, boring!!)

Now, let see, if I will get to choose what I will be after I graduate (I don't want to choose, really), and who I will spend the rest of my life with. . (zzz . . . fell asleep)