podeamFlaw?
Trying to co-ordinate a meeting for a subject I am doing this semester, my conversations with a friend became highly vociferant in nature. Why couldn’t people reply e-mails? Was it all that hard? Why couldn’t people reply sms-es? Is that all that hard?
Most probably rather disturbed (I just met the poor girl that day), she tried to make consoling sounds over msn; attributing the lack of response to rudeness of the young– we’re both self confessed old people, mentally.
However, chancing upon a comment on an old entry, I wonder.
Is it mere youthful rambunctiousness that resulted the (if unintended) discourtesy, or as jude thinks, the lack of passion and/or guile of poly media student?
If it is the latter, it would truly be disheartening, for then my claim that majority of us chose the path less travelled fully aware of the risks involved.
Why so? If the constant reminder of the sacrifice made for our current position resonates in our minds, I would think that we would be doing all we can to excel in all we do here.
I know I do.
The system perhaps has a flaw, one which I may not have consciously observed before: the young may be too young to decide.
The error in choice could be reflected in that made; the potential error in choice would be reflected in that not made.
Acquaintances from various junior colleges– the purported crème de la crème of the education system– sigh in envy of me; not for the independent study allowed to me, or the evident practicality of the subjects I study, but simply because I do not need to wear a uniform.
If that isn’t depressing, I don’t know what is.
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