yao1994, I wonder if you're going to lurk or come back and discuss, or if your requirement to stay positive overrides your curiosity about how much your view of reality matches with - er, actual reality. See, for a start, you must have me mixed up with someone else, and you had luckyluciano mixed up with someone else. You have my motives, my experience, my teaching from 'media', my following of the media, etc., all mixed up with someone else's. You demonstrate one of the problems of LoA, that you are more interested in projection than assessment of facts (though we are all guilty of that to some extent, and I demonstrated it myself with respect to Angela only yesterday).
My parents did push me to learn as much as I could, work hard at school, and encouraged me to go to university and contribute to society by making the most of my potential. I am intelligent, did very well at school, went to uni to study geology, and then, due to the various influences of Eastern mysticism, cannabis, the New Age philosophy and my own youthful laziness and ignorance of life, I dropped out to do the hippie rock muso thing. It almost completely destroyed me physically and mentally. About a decade later I got myself together enough, with the help of psychotherapy, to start a career (as a therapist myself; it's conveniently one of the things you can get into late in life, where experience is more important than a degree). I enjoyed that, largely because it still allowed me to be fairly lazy, for the next ten years. I have now not worked at all for about 2 years, for complicated reasons.
One of those reasons is that I have woken up from my dreams of mystical enlightenment. I am fascinated by science, as I always was, and my more youthful desires to teach the world how to love and drink coke have receded. I wish I had a degree and am looking at my options for the future, one of which would be to 'go back' to when I was 20 and continue my education. It's not about slogging my ass off. It's not about making megabucks. It's not about status. It's not about doing what the media tells me is good for me. It's about contributing to society, learning amazing stuff, having fun doing experiments and discussing difficult concepts with like-minded individuals. I gained certain things form my detour of 25 years, but I also lost a great deal. My parents warned me that I would waste my life, and in many ways I have so far. How did I do that? Well, by taking notice of people like Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions), eastern gurus and new age gurus, telling me to 'go with the flow' and 'there's all the time in the world' and 'live in the spiritual realm' and 'work for eternity'...oh, and 'reality is what you imagine it to be'.
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