Don't you hear the laughter on the way down?

[innocuouseve]

I wanted to think, have fought for years to think, that economic childhood advantages were only tools for apathetic heirs to dumb fortune who would always have more money than sense. And if I just worked harder, too my advantages where they arose, pursued relentlessly, I could even the playing field. I have also been under the false supposition

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[rosered517]

I so feel you. I have worked so hard to no apparent end. Since I didn't get into grad school I think I am taking a break from pursuing my "dreams" and trying to better myself. Instead I am just going to enjoy myself. I am going to find a job in the private sector and take some time to pursue leisure activities. Cooking, reading, writing, art, and re-learning to play the guitar. I can't help but feel giddy to think of all opportunities I have given myself to be happy and enjoy my time if I will not be fighting the current to try to do what is the perceived path I should be taking.

Get your degree. Take a break. Bake some bread. Breathe. Re-group. It is a world of possibility, and 90% of that world doesn't even know who Heidegger is. You are still pushing the curve and anyone who tries to make you feel less so they can feel more can suck it. And I will come to Chicago and make their ivy league asses lick my steel toed doc martens to prove it if necessary.