I Really Hated School

Okay, Monday the 7th of April 2025 and this is what I want to talk about today. You know, like I really hated school when I was young, growing up, and I hated learning if I'm being honest. The thing that I enjoyed moreover learning was experience, outside of effectively sitting in a

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classroom, reading about subjects that really didn't interest me and then something, you know, almost miraculous,

although I kind of like use that word for dramatic effect, like something miraculous or almost miraculous happened. I just became obsessed with learning. Like right now I'm supposed to be, you know, like literally like an hour ago, I was supposed to start recording this reflection,

but then instead I started just basically diving deep into the debate of who we are, purely because of a conversation that I was having with a bunch of friends yesterday when I finally asked the question, are we our bodies? To which we kind of like, you know, picked it, you know,

we kind of like nibbled it, we kind of like, you it, we kind of like you know chewed on it and I just couldn't let it go it just felt like there was more meat on the bone that just but it's almost like eating a chicken drumstick right and you know like my friends sort of like you know kind of like chewed it kind of like left it half eaten but you know like I mean obviously there's a kind of like joke that goes around like you know in know, it's something that's basically associated with like,

you know, being African. You don't leave any meat on the bone. You don't leave any meat on the bone. Like, are you mad? Like, if the bone is still there, like, what is that all about?

Like, you know, the bone itself might have to get a chewing. Like, what is this? Like I wasn't done and I feel like I'm now kind of like in the spirit of like, you know staying young through Continued learning like always just kind of like being like a sponge that just absorbs and absorbs and absorbs information I'm kind of like grateful for that. I almost want to go back to school. I want to sit down in a classroom I want to ask teachers questions. I want to sit down and do homework. Like it's very, very almost miraculous considering I'm coming from like a place

and I'm coming from like a position of identity when this is just something I wanted to stop. And it's an amazing phenomenon, I must admit.