need some advice on life please

undeadpetals
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:30:04 +0000

Just my two cents, could you possibly attend a CC and select only the classes that interest you? I took a World Religions class at my CC, and I would have loved to study it further, but there were no other courses that went deep in its subjects. You do not need a degree in life. You hear how many people say that a degree is nothing these days? Well, it is often better than nothing because easy employment is scarce if you don’t have at least some kind of paper proving you studied handsomely. You seem to know what interests you, which I encourage you to use to wove your own path in your life. I highly recommend that you take some college classes though, not only to satisfy your parents’ wishes, but if you could just study the subjects that grab you, you’ll learn so much and become a much more reliable person of what touches your heart.

In a way, I was told to obtain an AA degree before transferring to a 4-yr school. I needed to take a couple of extra classes that I refused to take. You need to be careful what kind of classes you take, however, as I see it in my own way that oftentimes some parts of a college education can be detrimental rather than enlightening.

I don’t know, somehow I picture your insights as reflecting my philosophy teacher, who, too, did not really know where to go in his life, but he went on to receive a MFA in philosophy and teach it at the CC where he once attended and lived during his childhood. He’s teaching, learning, and growing everyday through classroom discussions of philosophy and world religions. He couldn’t be happier, and even his students!