Different reality

I was in a hellhole just now as programming lesson was going on. I’ve lost touch in the progress of the lessons that I didn’t know a single shit the teacher was talking about. I turned to my laptop for entertainment.

Many people thinks that I’ve already fallen in the category of ‘hopeless’ students. It’s fine. I’m hopeless at what I’m studying, but studying isn’t everything in life.

It may sound weird, but I admire my ex classmates that made their own decision to leave school and do the things they like. I want to be like them, at the same time I have to respect my dad’s decision to stay in school.

Next year I’m probably gonna graduate with a useless piece of diploma. I don’t believe a piece of laminated paper will bring me anywhere in life. Though I must admit that a formal education is as important in the Information age that we are living in. With or without a formal education, I’m not prepared to get into the rat race.

The rat race is a route most ordinary people will take. Go to a 8-5 job every week, struggling to pay the bill every end of the month. Sometimes even having more months left than the money. It’s a pathetic lifestyle. If I only get to live life once, I’ll never want to go into this lifestyle.

Some people asked me to come back to the reality of life. That the rat race is something we all must go through. But that is not my reality of life, it’s theirs!

Recently I heard my pathetic teacher making a rant about how the success of Adam Khoo came about. She told the class how Adam Khoo became a millionaire at 21. Except it wasn’t even the truth. She stated that,” Adam Khoo became a millionaire because he was born in a rich family and his father placed 10 million dollars in his bank account. That was how his millionaire status came about.”

Bullshit. But I couldn’t be bothered to debate because I might just lose my cool.

If you read about the story about Adam Khoo, you see how bad he was as a kid in the past. But one day he went to a workshop and understood the power of peak performance. He was taught the power of neuro-linguistic. A way he could program his mind to achieve whatever he wants in life. He went early into business and wrote a book about how he succeeded. Then he became Singapore’s youngest millionaire at 26.

I’m not saying I can be exactly like him, but I can be successful in my own trade.

In closing I just want to share one last thing. I rather be taught by successful people in life rather than teachers who still struggles to pay the bills each month and achieving no financial freedom. No offense to teachers out there, but I choose the knowledge that comes to my brain.

The public education system molds us to become employees. Thank God I’m gonna get out of it!

~ by Billy Ong on July 15, 2010.