Little Wonders

Currently feeling numb.

I always wonder what's the reason people strive so hard for their studies, like me. What's the point of this cycle of life where we'll go to kinder garden, primary school, high school, college or uni, work produce kid, make them do the same thing we did, and die off or if we live longer, we might be able to see our children producing theirs and do the same thing to their kid like what we did to them. It's like running in circles looking for the end point but there's none and you're always stuck in that circle going no where. Perhaps you might find yourself somewhere further if the circle you are making is a bit bigger, but still, the fact is no matter how big your circle may be you ARE still running in circles.

Get good grades, get into a good company, be highly competitive and get a highly paid job and then you'll lead a good life.

Er.. wait.. From the beginning, who guarantees that getting good grades will get you into a good company? And getting into a good company doesn't guarantee a highly paid job too. And even if you get a highly paid job, it doesn't at all give you a good life. The only reason this theory survived till today is because this is what tradition leaves behind.

But the world has changed today. So much so that the cert that you are fighting so hard for currently means so little in the real world when it was once a BIG DEAL. Yeah, knowledge is power, and it remains true till today. But it's no longer the knowledge that you learn from school that is power anymore, it's a totally different one all in all.

Talk about cyber space, talk about job opportunities, talk about securities, business market, love relationship, social networking, communication infrastructure, government policies, trading efficiencies. You'll notice that none of it can be defined as how you used to define them 10 years ago. And people still think that the same old theory of leading a good life applies. It's either we just don't see the changes or we are simply being ignorant.

So back to my question, why the heck are we striving so hard academically and always say that it is our 1st priority?? How do we actually came up with the idea that getting good grades is our main priority? Is there a slight chance that we set our priority wrongly since the very beginning due to influences and traditions? That we simply didn't even spend enough time thinking from scratch what should we prioritize in this phase of our life? Or maybe we din even notice the need to evaluate should studies be 1st priority now at uni level?

Maybe there are more to life that we should excel in, even more than studies. Maybe?