Just a Thought

Choosing a college is the hardest thing I've had to do.

Thinking about it, choosing one  is simple because if I really think about it, there was only ever two colleges I felt I had to choose from. 

And now it has become one.

I have realized that the amount of money spent on a college doesn't make your education.

We just think it does.

For a while now, I've been thinking about what I really want from a college; a small school that allows individualized attention, with a supportive community that challenges me to never stop challenging the norms of society.

But then I have this other idea, that I've been forming for years now; the more money I spend on my education, and the bigger the name of the college I go to, the more successful I'll become, the more money I'll make. 

The happier I'll be.

But why is it that money is associated with happiness? Why have my parents been stressed for years about making more money, even if we have almost everything we need? Why is that people put so much significance on the acquisition of the dollar bill?

A piece of paper. 

Today I realized that my idea of success and happiness is erroneous, mislead.
The amount of money you make and the material you acquire doesn't measure how happy you are, or how far you'll make it in life, even if there are social constructs that justify the latter. 

So what I do now, as I grow up in a society where people are obsessed with making more than the person next to them in order to move up in this unnatural system of of institutional inequality that is accepted as the norm?

The road to becoming an individual in a world of conformity is a difficult one, but I refuse to accept these ideas that are believed without any doubt.