So here is what I have noticed. The more education you have the more you think all people should have more education. The more education you have the more you think people who don’t have an education are missing out, doing something wrong. Sometimes…when you have too much education (and some of you will say no such thing!) you pontificate from on high about your worthiness and accomplishment.
So here is the other thing I have noticed. The less education you have the more you think you don’t need it. The less education you have the more you think people who have an education are doing something wrong, somehow missing out on living because of their wasted time in school. Sometimes you pontificate from on high…wait..from on low….about how people who become too educated become snotty and forget where they are from and suddenly think they are better than everyone else.
At one time or another in my life I have belonged to both of these groups. Sometimes I flow easily from one to the other and then back again. Here is the problem, there are many people with no formal education that are brilliant and successful and have no beef with those who are educated and brilliant and successful. If you are uneducated and brilliant and successful those who said you should attain higher education think you brilliant and successful and are impressed by what you achieved in SPITE of your obvious shortcoming. People who are uneducated and brilliant and successful are looked at from others who are uneducated in two ways. Either you look like you are hardworking and brilliant and successful and admired or clearly you were handed something and didn’t deserve it as much as they did. Lucky, perhaps.
Here is where it gets good! (Cause it wasn’t already??) So if you have no education and you have no hope and you are useless…people who are educated say it is because you are uneducated. Waste of oxygen=no education. If you have no education and are a waste of space then people who are uneducated but who are brilliant and successful say you are lazy, good for nothing, need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. Now…if you are educated and brilliant and successful but you serve absolutely no purpose on this planet but to make others miserable to try to impress others…most people who are highly educated will only comment on the fact that you are highly educated and brilliant and successful. So I say it follows that if you are well educated and brilliant and successful you still are a waste of oxygen if you serve no good purpose. Confused yet?
So here is the moral to the story. Get your education, keep your humility. Get your education, keep your humanity. Become successful but don’t lose your smile. Be brilliant but don’t think you are brighter than the sun. Get your education and know that all of your accomplishments are yours as are your failures. Get your education and know that if you are still a rotten human being and a waste of oxygen and space that no matter how brilliant and successful you ever become that waste of oxygen and space will come back to greet you in the form of a little thing called karma.
Karma cares not how educated you are. Karma cares not of your success to the world or your brilliance to others. Karma could give a big rat’s ass if you think you’re special. It will find you and return to you what you have given or not given. Karma is patient and doesn’t work on anyone else’s time table. The message in that is no one can predict when the karma will come around for good or evil. Unfortunately you can’t be in the right place at the right time to know if it has come back to someone who should seriously be on the lookout for it (and to whom you would like to see it delivered….not that I know anyone like that, but still.) Unfortunately you can’t avoid it if it’s coming back to find you and you can’t ask for it in a specific time.
Be educated and encourage others to be educated, but don’t pontificate. I know for a fact that I would rather spend time with the least educated fun and sweet person then the brightest and most brilliant educated millionaire. Don’t be educated, but don’t hate on those who are. You’re shortcomings belong to you as do all of your decisions. Hard work is not taught in adulthood and sometimes it simply isn’t in the character of a person. 99.9% of time there is a direct correlation between effort and reward. If my effort equals my dream ride at some point in life, know that I got there because I worked to get there, it wasn’t handed to me. I’m going to assume, until you prove otherwise to me, that what you have you worked hard for and it wasn’t given to you. We’ll both be better off and we might learn something from each other. Maybe I am karma coming back to find you………..maybe you are karma coming back to find me. I hope we are good karma, both of us.
George Eliot said…”It is never too late to be what you might have been.” I’m working on it, George. I’m working on it.
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