Monday, April 14, 2008

When the Next Class Isn't Open And Other Curious Questions

What makes a life interesting? Dictionaries describe the word "interesting" in terms like "holding the attention or curosity of," "absorbing, entertaining." Would my life be categorized as such? If I had to write a biolography years from now, would these be years to skip? Or maybe it's the person, not the life, per say, that should be described as interesting. Wouldn't an "interesting" person always have an interesting life, no matter what happened or didn't happen in their life? As a child, you're always waiting for the next step. When you can go to school, middle school, high school, get your license, graduate. . .and so on and so forth. And these steps have predetermined timetables that push you to move forward, to grow, to mature. But what about after school? By then you're supposed to have trained your self to be motivated, and so you have. Still there are some things that you can't personally change and there's no preset timetable that will automatically move you into Literature II after you've completed, even successfully completed, Lit I. What about those things? What if you just kept repeating Lit I, which you're good at, but kept repeating it simply because the Lit. II class wasn't open yet. Do you take Biology II instead, even if you don't have any interest in Biology II?