Today, we had talks after talks in school and what really stuck in my head was how 'the education system is modeled after factories'. How's the world supposed to move forward with the 'production' of homogenous people (especially when what we're learning in school may be outdated in a few years)? Do the people who make it big really use the so called knowledge they gained in school?

Flipping through the pages of Teen Vogue, I spotted pictures of Dakota & Elle Fanning in Valentino and Valentino Couture. Kids out there who are talented, plain lucky, or just happen to have rich ass parents are earning a hell lot of money doing something they love. & here we are studying things that don't exactly matter to us. Honestly, how many of us out there care about stuff like upthrust or differentiation or ionic equilibria? Imagine you see this dude who gets a balloon, weighs it, calculates the weight of air displaced..... just to find the acceleration of the balloon (which is probably wrong given all the resistive forces). The thought amuses me.

I've always wondered why some people link happiness with the number of digits on one's paycheck. The people who marry for money, for example. I am sure that money will not be able to satisfy them for long. You could have a collection of shoes, bags, gowns, but how can one compare that to true love? Not everybody will agree with me, but I, for one, believe in true love and that nothing is worth more than anything else. I don't get how people can give that up for something as trivial as money. Then again, worth is subjective & I'm not going to judge 'cause people always yearn for what they don't have.

Point is, I don't see why we should study so hard just to get a job everybody wants (mostly because of the pay) I'm not saying that taking a non standard path is any easier, in fact, it's harder. There are no fixed rules or answers, like how personal taste in clothing is subjective. What's life without a little risk? Why take the path everybody else is taking just because everybody's working towards it? Although I've said all this, I'll probably end up doing something mainstream in the future but in my dream world, I could be a Features/Fashion Editor at a fashion magazine or a freelance percussionist.

Okay, now for something random. I find the entertainment industry pretty ridiculous these days. You can be famous over night singing ridiculous songs with meaningless lyrics with the use of Auto-Tune. I don't really know if people listen to these songs because they like the song or because the artists are so damn amusing. I don't really see the appeal in earning a couple grand while getting mocked and slammed by people all over the world (even though the experience does seem kinda fun). I don't know how the company sells these young artists, it's not as if they're drop dead gorgeous or have an amazing voice. But all this drama is what maintains entertainment as a thriving industry.

Back to the topic, I've always wanted to try working at a fashion magazine, though it's impossible for somebody like me. Oh well, I can continue dreaming & nobody can say anything about it :)