Lie to me

Lie is a very powerful thing and one of the most powerful lie is that 'Education can make you successful.' Today education has become a tool of control and what our whole formal education system does is, it plants fear in people like you and me. Education has become a tool where hardly successful people tell  younger generation, what's good, what's bad, what to do, what not to do. 

When I was growing up I was told there are no jobs for magician, there are no jobs for adventurers, there are no jobs for artists, and these are things that people who are educated somehow did not do. And through years of structural institutionalization what has happened is that our natural adventures came down. When nature built us it gave us the recipe for success, imagination, curiosity it built up with so many qualities that were inbuilt or given to make us successful. What has happened through this formal education is that we have found the way to kill these qualities we were born with. 

If education was so important, most of the corporate leaders or most of the successful people in the world should be the most educated, but unfortunately this isn't true. What education does to most of us is that, it tells us to work ourselves into a thin side, so you start of to become an adventurer as a kid, then you go to school, then to college and finally what happens is that you are good at just one thing, while when you were born you were good at so many things. So many of us have put our dreams to the back birth because somewhere down the line we have learnt that becoming safe is much more important than chasing your dreams. Having a safe job, having a safe house, having a safe family is the most important thing. And following your passion is something which is undesirable.

Once a famous person quoted ‘You only live twice. Once when you're born and when you're about to die.’ When you come out of your mummy’s tummy screaming and you don't know how it is to live and you start to breathe and when you’re about to die it’ll be the last time you’ll feel alive. It’s like a flaming matchstick which glows bright before extinguishing. You feel enormous sense of energy.

Between living and dying, we hardly live. We spend our life in painful jobs, infinite friends and a very safe life which is hardly rewarding. I sometimes wish I could un-educate myself. I find myself after dying through college and other exams that my curiosity, imagination and my natural talents were all dumped. I don't think you should make the same mistake. Don’t believe in lies that other people tell you. Just Believe in yourself. Education is supposed to make you adventurous, an adventurer who discovers new things not simply does what other people want him to. Feel Yourself.

-Where The Wave Breaks- Dananjaya Hettiarachchi