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Understanding life and blaming schools by C.Nic

Permanent Linkby NicS on Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:55 am

Growing up, we had to take Spanish and Japanese if we wanted to graduate. We learned about the culture in each country. And yet, we didn't really learn anything.

Apparently life was not taught to us right. I took a teen living class, knowing one day I would need to use the skills taught. I took culinary arts, because you have to eat, right? I took so many other classes I thought would be essential to my career choice and to life in general, and the whole time I was thinking I was doing the right thing. Everyone over 35+ said I was.

Now, I'm 18, underemployed, and being slammed by the realities of life. I thought with years of abuse I knew what the ###$ I was doing. Apparently I was completely wrong.

My dad once said that we should go to college, because everything we knew about everything would be turned around. I immediaetly thought "Well, then why the ###$ are they teaching us the wrong things now?" As it turns out they were and they weren't. My high school math teacher, a great guy named Mr. Downs (Canadian immigrant, by the way), told the whole class multiple times that we would never use the stuff he was teaching us ever, but it was what he was taught and so he knows its what our kids will be taught. He taught us it because he knew one day our kids would come home and say "Dad, how do you do this?". And most of the girls in the class listened attentively. Because of this, if you were a true whore who wanted to ###$ constantly and have Octomom amounts of babies, you better ######6 know the pythagorean theorem.

My communications degree is so we can work with video for a living. The reason we pursue this so obsessively is because we, having DID, suck at keeping memories. Video helps remind us what the ###$ we were doing at that point in time. I like video. Nic is OBSESSED with it. Film, video, cameras, XLR cables, DV tapes, file cabinets full of DVD's; you name it, he knows it. Except for teleprompters. Don't ask about teleprompters.

But getting back to the original point, I blamed the schools for not adequately preparing us for the real world. We collectively agree the last 6 years of Jr. high and High school were a bigger waste of time than "The Black Ninja". We have only just realized that we had to learn this stuff, like that everything can be seen as useless or useful, on our own. By that example, I mean you can either view the #######5 job at Dunkin' Doughnuts as the worst, most meaningless job ever or as the position that helps get someone through the day, and get his/her work done better. There truly are 2 sides minimum to every story. Max, there's 7 (for us. Its like Rashomon in here sometimes).

However, one thing still eludes me: why do people turn bad? I have very slowly figured out real life since graduation and the job search and such, but that answer still eludes me. You cannot live poor for 20-something years and not either get motivated to find a better job or just adjust and live within your means. There has to be an extra special group of morons that can only "Take it" for 7 months, and start dealing coke. Patience is a virtue, one this group seems to have missed. (And "Ye who hesitates waits" or whatever #######4 that is... well, is #######4. Are you going to try and beat the train, risking death or injury, or will you wait behind the ######6 gate like everyone else and be 100% safe?). At what point do you sit either alone on the streets, homeless or just in a #######5 apartment and think "Maybe cocaine can help". As long as its illegal, you will end up in jail or dead. Thats it.

The point is I'm still figuring out life, as are many of you. I kind of wish adults wouldn't have been so vague, saying "Hey, someday your going to look back at what you said here and think 'I was a real jackass'", instead say something like "Your being a dick, stop it now and don't ever do it again. Around me or around anybody."

My mom is a very great businesswoman. Its the only thing shes good at. I've started asking her business questions because I've looked into making our film making quests an actual thing someday. She tells me everything; how much she gets paid, how much goes to taxes or charity, what charity does to taxes, how she earns her money ethically, etc. She is great when it comes to this info, and it has helped me a lot. But I don't think if she could understand our mental illness, she couldn't understand our need to get a good-paying job that is both legal, ethical and in demand. Need is something required to live, want is saying "I should have a jet ski in a land locked state just to confuse people".

Yeah, I ranted. So ######6 what?

By the way, Zack finally got over his "Do we have AIDS" fears, and now sees them as irrational when we haven't had sex in 6 ######6 months and couldn't get it from a ######6 toilet seat or whatever.
-C.Nic

P.S: My ex-girlfriend is now classified as a whore, she was sleeping with 3 other guys besides us at the same time. I am now open for whoever just wants to talk about their ex's, cause I get how @@@@@@@ they can be. And ###$ Kelsey. ######6 whore.

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