BLINDERS

i have found that im constantly surround by mediocracy and habitual underachievers. this constant barrage of low self esteem and small minds has started to break me down. my search for free thinkers, hell thinkers period, is seeming fruitless. one would think that at a UNIVERSITY that more would be here to get an education, instead of treading thru a process necessary for a middle class life style. NO ONE WANTS TO LEARN!!!!!!!!! Stop looking to get by!!! what is the harm in trying to understand what's going on around you. raise your head out of your social life and look around! take off those blinders before you run into the society that your trying to avoid.

well, now that i have that off my chest i can write something. if you havent already guessed, right now im a student. im attending the Universty of Louisville, sociology and pan-african studies major. dont know what pan-african studies is? its the study of african americans and people of african descent. now what im going to actually do with a degree in pan-african studies is questionable. so why am i majoring in it if i dont have an idea of what i can do after i graduate? all i can say is that i enjoy the classes and im learning. which (as stated earlier) is why i wanted to go to school at the age of 30. i actually think that going later in life makes it alittle more enjoyable, and i know that i am involved more. not so much with campus life (partying, frats, ect.) but with the classes and dicussions (when i can find a decent one).

college has been one of my better decisions in life, really and truly its been one of the few major decisions that i have made. most others, i just let happen. dont get me wrong, i do have imput but not enough to actually affect the outcome. i was in the army for 10yrs, but it was my family that called the recruiter and set up the first meeting, i just never said no. ive sent the last 20yrs of my life just kind of floating along, not really directing but riding along. people who were close to me were so used to me just going with the flow that when i actually started to try and get focused the resisted. of course thats when everyone remember how hard headed and subborn i can be.