RE: ふく福 : Taking a chance on luck - Lone foreigner walks into locals’ bar...
Isn't it great how sometimes boredom can lead to something positive? I love that! It's funny how you call your being down 'flatlined'. I've been having the same kind of feeling on and off for the last few weeks and couldn't find the right word for it, since (like you also mention) it's not really depression. Only a couple of weeks ago, I had the same kind of feeling of being bored. Didn't feel like 'teaching' the kids and decided to bring them to the playground for a bit. We just moved and I thought we'd check out the area. We were there for an hour, and just as we were about to leave, another woman came in with her child. We ended up talking for a little over an hour and got along really well, as did her daughter with my kids. Before we left, my daughter said: "I think you have to exchange phone numbers." And so we did :) We're meeting again soon...Thanks for sharing your story.
This is great. Thanks for sharing this story. It’s a big encouragement to me as well. It always amazes me what’s possible when we let ourselves be a little vulnerable/open/happy.
You're very welcome. And very true. The funny thing is, is that she is now considering homeschooling because she's met my kids and she told me her older son isn't happy in school. So besides having a great time and meeting new people, she opened up her mind a little too!
That’s excellent!
I don't think most people would be happy at school. Before I dropped out of school I used to spend my classes reading novels and playing video games despite being top students in the class as I was becoming fed up with everything. It's not like I studied hard. It was mostly because the school was dragging me down. I was self-learning 2nd grade math for fun while in nursery and while doing my A/Ls I was getting lower scores than my peers who's answers were a page long compared to my quarter page which I managed to extend out of 3-4 lines of math.
I was at a point where I spent half of my school hours watching porn because I thought it was time better spent opposed to making myself write dumber answers to fit some arbitrary scoring system that rewards mediocrity above all else.
So I carry a very powerful contempt towards schools in general. I could never truly have any respect towards a school or a college.
Ha! It's like hearing my twin speak. I had exactly the same experience in school and college. I had good grades, would bring my books to the pool while others were at home studying. I can only remember 2 great teachers/classes, one for English and one for Art, the rest were just doing as they were told. I used to be bored all the time and got into trouble all the time for all sorts of things. It is a system that drags kids down, it always has been and will be if nothing changes. I used to read books way beyond my age, because the books we were 'allowed' to read: I'd either already read them or they were as boring as the classes were. And college? Well, went to two. Did I learn anything I wouldn't have known without it? No. I started working in 'my field of expertise' and became disillusioned very quickly about the way things worked. I quit it altogether for years, only to come back to it recently.