Why not.

   I think I started looking at the world differently when I was about 15 years old.

   Ok, I just lied. I thought I was looking at the world differently back then but as it turns out now I think I wasn't actually looking at all. Something less important but still vital for awakening happened to me. I started asking WHY at the age of 15. WHY do I have to dress like that, WHY do I have to listening to this genre of music instead of the other, WHY do I have to know these things you tell me I have to know. This is ,as doctors and scientists describe, puberty. Necessary but nonetheless silly teenage rebellion. My parents thought I was going through a stage of my life where I will be a grumpy, rebellious, silly little girl who eventually I will outgrow.
  
   Have you noticed that during these years where each one of us starts to question the world, authority and all the set rules, EDUCATION becomes more stressful, the material we have to learn (memorise) becomes unnecessarily over-complicated pile of shit. ( Excuse my poor dictionary, clearly I am an illiterate, below averaged IQ-ed,  unqualified bag of neurons who not rather due to preference for simplicity than rather due to absence of complicated vocabulary is unable to express my thoughts and feelings in writing.)

   Anyway, as I was saying: Education comes knocking on your door; all looking bright, promising and safe, just like a Jehovah's witness who speaks in a voice very polite and tells recites you this story:

" Oh, hello there. I hope I am not interrupting you, I saw you were playing outside climbing that tree and looking at the birds, you seemed to be enjoying this very much. I promise I won't take long, just give me 7 or 8 years of your life to tell you why some facts need to be learned in order for you to succeed in life, find a job, wife, house, happiness etc and NOT end up poor, unhappy and stupid."

   And that's when the scare tactics begin, at our confused puberty time. I don't need to go into detail, I know that I was afraid, just like you. One moment I will be enjoying the liberties of life and manage to find out what is most important in life, find out what is pure happiness. (Come on, you are telling me that when you were 12 and you stayed outside till late, with your friends on a warm summer night, it didn't feel like pure happiness?) And you realise during puberty that the way we have made the world work, through our laws and political strategies, we have fucked it up big time! Once you have seen that pure happiness is having friends and being careless, you are suppose to accept the world's view on what happiness is: Work hard all day, all week for 50 years and then retire and do nothing for the hardest and not very pleasant 20 years you have left of your life span?? (Read that one twice). I say: Fuck the world's view on happiness!

   I was never convince by what education and the world were telling me. Throughout puberty and long after onto my "adult" years I kept asking WHY? Why is the world like that and not a better place? It's only a matter of choice, is it not? We create, we are in a way our  own Gods, because we are all-powerful, just look at all the technology we have created! We can stop hunger with a click of our fingers(if we want it to), we can stop all wars and conflicts, we can engage children and pupils to really learn about the world and look outside their windows more often. We are the keys to our own happiness. Not jobs, not money, not big houses, not better cars. These things will only give you the illusion of happiness, and that illusion won't last for very long. You end up getting more and more stuff to satisfy your need for happiness. How do you think consumerism works?!

   In the begging of the post I mentioned that at the age of 15 I wasn't looking yet, but I was on the right path.Today I see. I see the world and most importantly I see through it. I don't ask WHY anymore. I demand WHY NOT.