Privilege and Passion

        Privilege plays a huge roll in passion. It's easier to follow what you want to do if you are financially stable, if you have parents that support you. When you don't have a lot of obstacles to jump through of course it's easier to follow your dreams and figure out what you want to do. If I had more money when I wanted to go back to school I could have finished by now.

I'm not rich, I'm not financially stable but I would like to be someday. My parents didn't save up a college fund for me I have to figure it out. When I hear kids going to school and not working I do feel envious but realize its not their fault and I've been working hard all my life why stop now? I know the struggle and I would like to give my children the option of going to school and to just concentrate on school. 

    

   To flip it around it could be hard being privileged because you are expected to do so much but you may not want that. The family maybe wants you to be a doctor or lawyer and you want to be a dancer or singer. If you are privileged you might have a lot of pressure for you to get good grades and to go to college even though you might not want to. This could also be unfulfilled and why would you be? Yes this person will be making a lot of funny but inside they aren't happy with their life because they are not passionate about their job. 

Instead of them trying to achieve their goals and dreams instead they listened to their family and to make them happy and since they are paying for their schooling they listen. We did get sucked in because we are too afraid to see what we want and we think that we can't get it either. It is a shame because our parents do tell us you can be anything you want and then when you turn 18 they say but you have to make money. "Isn't it somewhat twisted how we choose to harvest our children? Parents say, "Follow your dreams, do what you love, believe in the tooth fairy." Then when you turn 18 as if some kind of ritual they say, "Silly child, dreams are not realistic and no love is not practical.""  This is so unfair that you have to go through life thinking that the sky is the limit and then find out no its not or dreams are worth nothing and why try to follow them because its too hard to do. We are made to fail. The system is here to say you can't do this why try to better yourself? They want me at my job doing the same thing education isn't free they push the cost so way up why would you spend money on that when you can work and save that money for yourself? 

     Yes there is a relationship between privilege and passion. Only if you know what you want it is to your advantage. I think the people who are less privileged work harder for it and know what it takes in the real world. The experience of the unknown won't scare them because they have been through worse, and they won't take the school experience for granted. When you pay for your education I know I don't want to feel like I am throwing my money away. I will never skip class unless I am dreadfully ill. I treat my schooling like I treat my job, like I am getting paid because in the long run I will be getting paid for my education and students need to realize that, this is a future paycheck!