Students: Dare to relax?
Music. Music is the most common way we students study. Right? I sit here at my desk, mindlessly gazing at my heavy workload- history projects, French orals, melodies. I tune into my background music. Ennio Morricone’s love theme from Cinema Paradiso. Dare I put my pen down? Dare I listen? Dare I enjoy?
Exposition. I take a break for just a moment. For just one moment I might actually be given the chance to think, think about something that’s not Pythagoras theorem or the laws of physics. I give myself the chance. I look out the window, to the sky, the clouds, the sun. Imagination overpowers my thoughts.
Development. I imagine myself in the year to come, the near change. Life’s alterations. College. We have 47 days left before exams. Who knows what’s to come. Some of those sitting in that room, we will never see again. Others will become the failures or the successes of todays capitalist world. I imagine myself sitting in a comfortable office chair, designing the latest myspace. I challenge life’s pessimism and I win. I will do what I enjoy and no silly points system will get in my way, I will not let it.
Recapitulation. To do what we crave in life many of us will have to overcome this notorious education system. We are told it is the biggest challenge in our lives. Yes, no one said achieving our ambitions is easy, we must fight for them. Jump the academic wall, gain life’s skills for today’s world and win.
Colin Lowry.
The inspiration for this post came from something I wrote a while back but did not think it suitable to publish. If I were to sum up the Leaving Cert in one word it would be ‘Clutter’. Originally named ‘Random Philosophical Junk no.59’.
Here’s an extract:
Dare to Step Forward
“Dare to take your freedom. Take these moments and they are the ones that will stick with you in life. Take that time to sit back and say, I want this I will do it but always enjoy yourself. Enjoyment is a virtue, The superior ambition. Balance is the key to success.
The sun outside has set and the moon rises to the nights call. My mind has betrayed me and allowed me slip into a coma. The capitalists are calling and I must continue with this grating work. No time for thinking. No time for enjoyment. The economy won’t make itself. Freedom however will. If you let it. Freedom is the biggest challenge of all, battling those constraints of society.” ~Colin Lowry