Life Experience Doesn’t Get Taught Inside A Classroom

“To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.” ― Sunday Adelaja

We Are Programmed ; Not Educated

School is a means to an end.
Life experience is a means to the opening of one’s consciousness.

While you were sitting between four walls and a textbook, I was experimenting this thing called Life. And had I not went through life the way I did, I wouldn’t be half the person I am today.
School puts your memorizing skills to the test.
Life experience puts every fiber of your being up to the test.
And unlike the education system that looks down on failure, in the real world, the more you fail, the better it gets.

You can’t uncover the magnitude of what you are made of by never risking putting yourself out there. Through experience, you gain knowledge and understanding that you can’t find through forcing your mind to remember the 26 answers for next week’s exam.

The Illusion Of Mastery

Life experience is the ultimate test of life. It’s where character gets built. It’s where wisdom gets acquired. So next time you mistakenly assume that your worth equates the number written in red pen on your term paper, remember that.

School is what soccer practices are for kids: you’re only in it for the reward at the end of the game. (Let’s be for real. We were all doing it for those rocket popsicles.)
Yet the difference is that the schooling system hosts the worst practices in the league. They barely do a decent warm up. And what do you think happens when you don’t prepare yourself adequately for the real game?

You get hit in the fucking face.
(Believe me, I’ve been there, both on turf and outside of it. 3 concussions later yet more conscious than ever 😉 )
The truth is that you don’t need to be in a coma to get plagued by unconsciousness. If you never question the authority of the system you are trapped in, you’re already there.

Too bad. The choice has already been made for the modern slave that you are. Thank your lack of awareness for that one.
Did you really think that memorization and regurgitation are true assets in the real world? Do you even have a clue as to how life gets played out there?
I don’t get fooled by holders of masters and PhD’s. " Trust me, I’m a professional". Yeah. He was right. Professional soul crusher that fucked my brains up for years on end.

Your inherent value as a human being doesn’t get written down on your diploma. Kindness. Compassion. Wisdom. Resilience. Emotional growth. You sadly don’t need any of those virtues to graduate.

Thankfully, the school of life can provide you with the fertile ground that you’ve been needing all of these years to grow into the human being you were meant to become. We can’t flourish in hostile environments designed to blind us from the realities of human existence.

I may have failed at math my whole life, but life experience made me win at life.