"Everyone wants a better life, very few of us want to be better people."
Where in, it is therapeutic to get these thoughts and rants out, I am really kind of tired of how many rants I have in my mind that I want to write about and share. EVERY SINGLE DAY there is something new in the world that makes me want to take my family, sell off 95% of our belongings, and go survive in the woods somewhere in our camper. Hang enough blankets and turn on the heater and we could survive the winter. We would need electric hook up though so I could charge our devices for alarms and such like that. So maybe a friends backyard who has property and a LONG extension cord on its own circuit.
"Does it make me weak, or rather, just human, that I run away from things I love the moment they start to hurt me?"
Our children need school and I don't know if I or my wife are up for home schooling. Although, I mean, I could technically do it, I have access to all the appropriate materials needed, and there's always Magic School Bus, BBC Planet Earth, History Channel (it's aliens), Cosmos, and on and on. We could take them into the woods and teach them how to do everything that will be needed once this country is turned to chaos by it's administration. We could teach them to hunt and fish, to make fire and find water, to farm and build shelter, and survive mostly on their own. We could use the Internet to it's full ability until Net Neutrality no longer exists and look up all the things we would need to teach them. We would teach our children to be good, decent, caring people. We would teach them to treat all people with respect and not to judge someone just because they are different from you. We would teach them that life is painful, but without pain we would never appreciate the good times.
"Life is pain princess, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something."
Don't get me wrong, most of this is being or going to be taught to them anyways, the problem is that they are getting all this info mixed in with stuff that bothers me. I have one child who got all his info on politics from his music teacher. What in the world is the music teacher doing teaching politics in music class? She didn't really say anything that I disagreed with specifically, however, it's not her place to teach my child something as fact that is just her opinion.
I keep sending them to public schools and they get taught from outdated text books, by underpaid teachers who often don't have the ability to actually give kids the individual attention they deserve (not usually the teachers fault), get bullied and harassed for being different, and the schools are constantly having to pull classes and such due to misappropriated funding. You don't NEED a new football stadium when you can't afford books and art supplies, but maybe that's ONLY me who feels that way.
"Educating the mind mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
I want to leave this life behind and start over. I want to take off and start a life where I am in charge of my destiny, not some guy in a suit in an office a thousand miles away. I want to feel like what I am doing with my life actually matters and I am actually responsible for helping make the world a better place. I want to make a life that not only I, but my wife and children and future grandchildren can be proud of. I want to leave a legacy for them, something that makes people take them seriously when they speak because of who came before them. I want to leave my mark on them and this world and make it a good one.
"Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving behind your mark."
Maybe one day I'll either have the funds to do it, or finally the last straw will break and we will be out and gone in a weekend. Maybe one day I will be able to take my life by the reigns and break it's will till it does what I want it to. Maybe one day I can step away from all this stress and drama and live a much more care free life.
"Maybe one day."
Where in, it is therapeutic to get these thoughts and rants out, I am really kind of tired of how many rants I have in my mind that I want to write about and share. EVERY SINGLE DAY there is something new in the world that makes me want to take my family, sell off 95% of our belongings, and go survive in the woods somewhere in our camper. Hang enough blankets and turn on the heater and we could survive the winter. We would need electric hook up though so I could charge our devices for alarms and such like that. So maybe a friends backyard who has property and a LONG extension cord on its own circuit.
"Does it make me weak, or rather, just human, that I run away from things I love the moment they start to hurt me?"
Our children need school and I don't know if I or my wife are up for home schooling. Although, I mean, I could technically do it, I have access to all the appropriate materials needed, and there's always Magic School Bus, BBC Planet Earth, History Channel (it's aliens), Cosmos, and on and on. We could take them into the woods and teach them how to do everything that will be needed once this country is turned to chaos by it's administration. We could teach them to hunt and fish, to make fire and find water, to farm and build shelter, and survive mostly on their own. We could use the Internet to it's full ability until Net Neutrality no longer exists and look up all the things we would need to teach them. We would teach our children to be good, decent, caring people. We would teach them to treat all people with respect and not to judge someone just because they are different from you. We would teach them that life is painful, but without pain we would never appreciate the good times.
"Life is pain princess, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something."
Don't get me wrong, most of this is being or going to be taught to them anyways, the problem is that they are getting all this info mixed in with stuff that bothers me. I have one child who got all his info on politics from his music teacher. What in the world is the music teacher doing teaching politics in music class? She didn't really say anything that I disagreed with specifically, however, it's not her place to teach my child something as fact that is just her opinion.
I keep sending them to public schools and they get taught from outdated text books, by underpaid teachers who often don't have the ability to actually give kids the individual attention they deserve (not usually the teachers fault), get bullied and harassed for being different, and the schools are constantly having to pull classes and such due to misappropriated funding. You don't NEED a new football stadium when you can't afford books and art supplies, but maybe that's ONLY me who feels that way.
"Educating the mind mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
I want to leave this life behind and start over. I want to take off and start a life where I am in charge of my destiny, not some guy in a suit in an office a thousand miles away. I want to feel like what I am doing with my life actually matters and I am actually responsible for helping make the world a better place. I want to make a life that not only I, but my wife and children and future grandchildren can be proud of. I want to leave a legacy for them, something that makes people take them seriously when they speak because of who came before them. I want to leave my mark on them and this world and make it a good one.
"Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving behind your mark."
Maybe one day I'll either have the funds to do it, or finally the last straw will break and we will be out and gone in a weekend. Maybe one day I will be able to take my life by the reigns and break it's will till it does what I want it to. Maybe one day I can step away from all this stress and drama and live a much more care free life.
"Maybe one day."
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