Life
People always tell me (and I try to tell myself) to stop worrying about the future and focus on the present. But how can I not worry about the future when what I do or do not do in the present directly influences what I will be doing in the future? I go to school because I want to get an education. I want to get an education because I want a well-paying career. I want a well-paying career because I want to live comfortably and support my future wife and kids. I think. Do I even want kids?
So where does it all end? Did my parents send me to school in kindergarten with the notion in mind that I must get an education in order to get a good job? Is this my purpose in living life? To make money? It would be practical yet ludicrous to think that I, another insignificant human being on the face of what seems like a never-ending vast of space, have a greater purpose. I, just like everyone else in the world, am trying to live life. To survive. But what is the meaning of survival? According to dictionary.com, survival is a person or thing that survives or endures. So isn’t everyone surviving? What differentiates me from the homeless guy with the sign asking for change on the street? Aren’t we both surviving?
Sometimes I wish I was born in a different time period. A period of time when there was no currency. A period of time where there were no materialistic values. A society where each individual fights for his or her own survival with no means of competition.
Well, got to get to sleep now. Early classes tomorrow.
I found your monologue to be quite deep and truthful. Students are slaves in the educational system and they are forced to go to school and get good grades or else we learn that our lives will mean nothing. Great ending, overall well done.