"The Supreme Being" ...a contradictory polemic

My personal belief is that, graduating high school, going to college, getting a degree in something you did out of convenience , to only get a job clocking fifty hours a week, waiting for that pay check every other month is not the formula to success. This is not conducive to being a "supreme being". When I say "supreme being", I mean finding out who we really are and why we are here. Traditionally people spend the first third of their life climbing the ladder of institutional education working hard to go to the best schools and get the best jobs. Then they wake up at 22 yrs old, drive to their entry level jr. analyst position at a high profile investment bank and realize, they hate their life. They spend 12 hour days making millions of dollars for someone else. That is not bringing them closer to the nucleus of their supreme ability.

Tapping into your own personal energy and exploring your strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes is what helps you to find out who your really are. Your brain is a powerful thing and I feel like it is highly under used. We live in a society where we are taught to be followers not leaders. Taught to believe what we are told and not question law. Questioning is imperative for learning. Question your professors, question you, pastor, question your parents. It is through this unyielding questioning where true knowledge is attained and secured. Those who buy into this iconoclastic philosophy are usually labeled as rebellious radical but it is this ability that keeps you rooted in being true to your self. As important as it is to "think" it is just as important to "live". Sitting in a room reading about the lives of others does stimulate the mind but leaving that room and writing your own life story is what builds character. Taking risks and failing, falling in love, helping others is what helps us etch our name in the stone of life.

Now, is it possible to be successful without going to college and getting a job to support yourself financially in this country? It's not impossible, but it's definitely not easy. The US is designed for people to incur debt and get jobs to pay it off. You leave college, a place of learning and growth, 80,000 dollars in debt. I fundamentally have an issue with that. So does the average college student have time to read for leisure and take trips across seas, while working two jobs making pennies, and taking 19 credits to graduate on time. Again, not impossible, but tough. I'm a firm believer in "understanding the machine". Everyone's "risk tolerance" is different given their social and/or economic status. We all can't do the things we want to do. Sometimes keeping your head above water is the only thing that matters and what you really want to do becomes irrelevant.

So in reality, the cycle will continue. We will continue to pay 20k a year for college, get an internship and springboard in to corporate America. When that cycle is broken, that will be a sign of the true maturation of humanity. The focus on making you and everyone around you reach their personal zenith for the benefit of all.