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A Big Problem with "The System"

Somewhere along the way as you grow up, you start to think about what you want to do with your life.  The “normal” path (ha-ha) is sort of like this:

“Hmmm what college should I go to?”
“I hope my SAT scores are good enough.”
“I should have some extra curricular activities, good schools like that!”

Ok, so what if you don’t want to go with the “normal” route?  Well I guess then the universe must think you’re not normal.

“Maybe I will join the military.”
“My uncle can get me into the carpenter’s union.”
“My buddy is a waiter in New York, he makes good tips!”

A lot of great, bright, intelligent, innovative people are “not normal.”  Of course you see I am using irony to point out that “the system” is making everyone - including 42.7%¹ of the graduating student population in the US - think they are not normal, dumb, weak, inadequate, undesirable.  How sad.

Once high school is over, a lot of these kids suffer from depression and basically, a feeling that they have no purpose.  That often leads to drug use and abuse and other forms of destructive behavior.

^{1 College Enrollment and Work Activity of Recent High School and College Graduates Summary. (2018, April 26). Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/news.release/hsgec.nr0.htm}